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

"After Silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is MUSIC". Bill NOrrie... Technics Forum

This is my favorite! Thanks Bill!

Elizabeth...

It has kept from having to get a real job!
Donm

It keeps me from acting my age.
Eddie

It took me the first several years of my life to learn what notes to play, and now I'm spending the rest of it learning what notes not to play.

For me, playing is literally a musical version of telling a story...it's more about the story than the words that make up the story.

Ian