"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."
-- Joseph Addison

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

"Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance."
-- Louis Armstrong

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

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
--Johann Sebastian Bach

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music can change the world. "
-- Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
-- Leonard Bernstein

"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. "
-- James Brown

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
-- Thomas Carlyle

"All music comes from God."
-- Johnny Cash

"If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. "
-- Edgar Cayce

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

"Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. "
-- Miles Davis

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
-- George Eliot

"You are the music while the music lasts."
--T. S. Eliot

"We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. "
-- Jerry Garcia

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
-- Kahlil Gibran

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."
-- Edgar Watson Howe

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent."
-- Victor Hugo

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

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul."
-- Geoffrey Latham

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-- Walter J. Lippmann

"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

"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
-- Giuseppe Mazzini

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

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

"Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. "
-- Alanis Morissette

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

"Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought."
-- Theodore Mungers

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

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
-- Charlie Parker

"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. "
-- Elvis Presley

"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. "
-- Lou Reed

"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

"Music should never be harmless."
-- Robbie Robertson

"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

"Music is the key to the female heart."
-- Johann G. Seume

"The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. "
-- Bruce Springsteen

"All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."
-- Bruce Springsteen

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
--George Szell

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul's own speech."
--Unknown

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

"I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing."
-- Eddie Vedder

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

"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

Taike, Thank you, nice.

John C.

Taike,
I have read your many posts in this forum. They are all profound, well thought out, and relative to who we are.
I wish you were my neighbor. I think our relationship to philosophy would color all our conversations.
I commend you for being an exceptional player in this Synthzone. You set such a great example for all.
thank you for all that you do, say, and quote.
Best to you and yours,
Bebop

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Taike:
[B]Thank you for your very kind words, Bebop. Your posts are very informative as well and I still remember how well-managed the Technics forum was under your tutelage. Therefor your effort on rekindling the Roland forum will no doubt be appreciated by the Roland players on SZ. I wish you sucess in your endeavor and most of all limitless happy hours of pure joy playing your instrument.

If there's one philosophy I adhere to, it's that, no matter what instrument or brand we play, it should all be about music first. Many a time I am lost amongst all the technical aspects being discussed as to me, the keyword of arranger-keyboard is "arranger" as that's what my main interest is; to arrange music for -I've mentioned it previously- to me it's all about the arrangement and less about the voices/styles. No musician made it big because he/she played a particular brand or model or because of Mega voices, SA or Guitar Mode, etc. The right arrangement nibbles your ear and makes love to your heart.

Best Regards to You and your Loved Ones

Taike