Listening to Hard Rock

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. - James Bramston

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. - John Cleveland

Work hard. Rock hard. Eat hard. Sleep hard. Grow big. Wear glasses if you need 'em. - Webb Wilder

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. - Ovid

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. - Peter Lynch

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham