[An intellectual] is someone w...

[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

~John Chesson~

You know what you do when you ...

You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up!

~Enrico Caruso~

You got to get it while you ca...

You got to get it while you can.

~Janis Joplin~

You can't possibly hear the la...

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.

~Oscar Levant~

You can't go to the store and ...

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

~Les Paul~

You are the music while the mu...

You are the music while the music lasts.

~T.S. Eliot~

Without music, life would be a...

Without music, life would be a mistake.

~Friedrich Nietzsche~

Without music life would be a ...

Without music life would be a mistake.

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche~

Why waste money on psychothera...

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

~Michael Torke~

Why should the devil have all ...

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

~Rowland Hill~

Who is there that, in logical ...

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!

~Thomas Carlyle~

Who hears music, feels his sol...

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

~Robert Browning~

When words leave off, music be...

When words leave off, music begins.

~Heinrich Heine~

When people hear good music, i...

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

~Edgar Watson Howe~

What we provide is an atmosphe...

What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way.  Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.

~Meyer Davis, about his orchestra~

What passion cannot music rais...

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

~John Dryden~

Were it not for music, we migh...

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

~Benjamin Disraeli~

We listen to great music and k...

We listen to great music and know that all our joys and sorrows are part of something beyond our comprehension - and so indefinitely valuable.

~Jesse O'Neill~

We know an age more vividly th...

We know an age more vividly through its music than through its historians.

~Rosanne Ambrose-Brown~

We enjoy playing with each oth...

We enjoy playing with each other, which I think is a pretty important part of this. If we didn't, we'd have given it up a long time ago. The idea when we started was to take five people and keep 'em together no matter what and see what we could get out of it, and we've pretty much stuck to that plan.

~Tom Petty~