Listening to Hard Rock

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

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

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

Elvis may have been the king of rock 'n roll, but I am the queen. - Little Richard

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

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

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. - Steven Tyler

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. - Petrarch

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

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

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

We should be as water, which is lower than all things yet stronger even than the rocks. - Sioux Proverb

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

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

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

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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