"I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment." ~ Yo-Yo Ma
Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. ~ Miles Davis
Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse. ~ Mickey Hart, Spirit into Sound
What we play is life. ~ Louis Armstrong
Playing guitar is a never-finished journey. ~ John Fogerty, USA Today, 9/27/04
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. ~ Quincy Jones, Guideposts, 9/04
Music... the favorite passion of my soul.~ Thomas Jefferson
Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. ~ Ray Charles
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.~ Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
We all do "do, re, mi," but you have to find the other notes yourself. ~ Louis Armstrong
The world changes when there’s music in it. ~ Michael Tilson Thomas, Rhythm of Life