Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work

The voice sang on, “I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.” I played it again. I was not fine.

Follow through.Make your dreams come true.Don't give up the fight.You will be alright.Cause there's no one like you in the universe

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,and silently steal away.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

If I were not a physicist I would probably be a musician I often think in music I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Do you think you're the only one who feels the way you do?We're all fifty shades of fucked up Well join the club, yeah join the clu

The only thing that ever came close to tugging my heart strings is music. I know this because that is the only time I've felt them move.

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Lydia could hear music too, of accordion, horn and tuba bands, their oompa-pa oompa lumpen sounds like the bellows of bulls or moos of cows.