"I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music." - Nick CaveTweet
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music." - Soren KierkegaardTweet
"Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up." - Rainn WilsonTweet
"I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry." - Amy WinehouseTweet
"Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math." - Kareem Abdul-JabbarTweet
"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them." - Doug CouplandTweet
"I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow." - Bob DylanTweet
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." - Leonard BernsteinTweet
"Love is a friendship set to music." - Joseph CampbellTweet
"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only." - Henry MillerTweet