“Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?”
“Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you ve never sung before, and you realize you ve never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, Life in the Fast Lane? That s what they re saying right there? You think, why have I been singing wipe in the vaseline? how many people have heard me sing wipe in the vaseline? I am an idiot.”
“So don t you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]”
“Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and rotting meat... What then was music created for? Was it to drown out the voices of others, or the voices within ourselves? I think I know.”
“Beethoven tells you what it s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it s like to be human. Bach tells you what it s like to be the universe.”
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one s nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
“Close your eyes and I ll kiss you, Tomorrow I ll miss you.”
“The only one who s got enough of me to break my heart.”
“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
“Definition of rock journalism: People who can t write, doing interviews with people who can t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can t read.”
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.”
“What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?”
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”