What can you add to this list?
John C.

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
--Maya Angelou

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-- Berthold Auerbach

"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. "
-- Ray Charles

"I started making music because I could."
-- Alanis Morissette

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not. "
-- Van Morrison

"Without music life would be a mistake."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway."
-- Lionel Richie

"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."
-- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

"All music is important if it comes from the heart. "
-- Carlos Santana

"Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us."
--Unknown


"There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it."
-- Ron Wood

"Music at its essence is what gives us memories. "
-- Stevie Wonder