Listening to Hard Rock

Music, my rampart and my only one. - Edna St Vincent Millay

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

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

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

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. - Peter York

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

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

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

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

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

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks. - George Burns

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence. - Buddha

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

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler