Even If You Do

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
~ Henry Miller ~

Beware the Dangers of Music

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
~ Pietro Mascagni ~

Just Concentrate

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
~ Witold Lutoslawski ~

Healthy Music

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.
~ Hal A. Lingerman ~

What's distinctive about American music?

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
~ James Weldon Johnson ~

Everyone Loves Music

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
~ Billy Joel ~

Soundtrack of Life

The history of a people is found in its songs.
~ George Jellinek ~

Pure Simplicity

Country music is three chords and the truth.
~ Harlan Howard ~

A World Without Elvis

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
~ Buddy Holly ~

Assault of Sound

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.
~ Steven Halpern ~

Juggling Act

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
~ Benny Green ~

Why I wore out my NKOTB tape

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~