“ Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language. Ellen J. Barrier
“ Life is as sad as a glass of grenadine.' ... It’s almost that. It is sad. But, at the same time, how a glass of grenadine sparkles! Mylène Farmer
“ The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it. Michael Gungor
“ So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern. Charles Kaiser
“ Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon. Hunter S. Jones
“ Back then he'd hammered out rags as rough as the planks that made up that schoolhouse stage. Over the years he's taken a saw and rasp to those tunes and smoothed them at the edges, sanded them slowly… Richard J. Alley
“ A good crowd had formed along the sidewalk and the concrete ledge that bordered Louis Armstrong Park. The anticipation was dizzying...New Orleans had the big-boy parades and [Jackson & Billy] couldn't… Hunter Murphy
“ He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops. Hunter Murphy
“ The wild notes of tuba and trumpet and trombone rattled and hummed through the trees. In the first group of musicians, there were kids as young as fourteen playing the tuba and one kid who probably co… Hunter Murphy
“ I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me. Anne Rice
“ The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments… Paul Fleischman
“ Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. Every day, they face the fina… David Ackert
“ … A wonderful collection of truths, and almost all are inconvenient’.‘… Something here to offend everyone’.‘… Everything from burlesque to parody, and with a sprinkling of serious commentary to confou… Patrick Brislan
“ What is Lisztomania, and how was it cured? Who was Drog, and what was his prophecy regarding Electronic Music? What preparation do you need before throwing an artistic tantrum? Which orchestral musici… Patrick Brislan
“ These babies ain’t just guitars; these babies are living, breathing instruments. Brenda Sutton Rose
“ For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea Florence Welch
“ Silken strings composing the harpsichord of life accommodate a score of emotional tidings. An orchestra of linked heartbeats strumming the melodious prose of our collective intones gives rise to sonne… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. Robert Schumann
“ When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being criticized on the basis that his work is too 'literal' or too 'commo… L. Ron Hubbard
