"The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other." Arthur Rubenstein

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." H.E. Luccock

"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time." Ornette Coleman

"Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace." Leonard Bernstein

"Music is the universal language of mankind." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"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." John F. Kennedy

"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing." Leonard Bernstein

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." Aaron Copland

"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple." Keith Jarrett

"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings." Billy Joel

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." Japanese proverb

"I believe that music is the most important when the music stops. When a piece ends, that's when I really measure what effect it had on me or those who heard it." Michael Tilson Thomas

"It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music." Eric Hoffer

"Music is the voice of the universe, it is the voice of humanity and is part of our existence. Good music is the harmonization of all the vibrations of which matter consists, and it restores us to ourselves and to our universe. It is the bond that we have between our own frequencies and those frequencies which vibrate millions of light years away. I have always felt that music is basically therapeutic." Yehudi Menuhin

"You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing." Lewis Freedman

"Music is purposeless play, an affirmation of life, not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living." John Cage

"More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible." Billy Joel

"There is something primitive about being close to live music. What makes it work is that people are inherently eager for intimacy." Buddy Charles

"If you keep a green bough in your heart, then the singing bird will come." Chinese Proverb

"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." Henry David Thoreau

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul." Plato

“Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain. You hear them and they're affixed to you.” Carlos Santana

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.” Pablo Picasso

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” Charlie Mingus

“The best thing about music is that when it hits, you feel no pain.” Bob Marley

“Good music is very close to primitive language.” Denis Diderot, philosopher (1713-1784)

“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life. I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.” Miles Davis

“The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.” Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973)

“I can look at a fine photograph and sometimes I can hear music” Ansel Adams

“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.” Jules Combarie

“Why do I love songs? It's three minutes of condensed storytelling, of trying to collect your thoughts lyrically, musically and emotionally, and when it works there's nothing on earth like it. Think about it: Airwaves of sound move the little hairs and bones in your body, enter your brain and make your neurons fire off skyrockets. No matter how much you look at the math of it, it is beautiful, it is mystical beyond words. I only have to think about a song like `Waterloo Sunset’ and my physiology changes. What's not to love about that?” Jon Brion

“Dance to the music of your dreams, the steps will bring you joy.” Unknown

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” Jimmy Carter (An Outdoor Journal)

“Take time to laugh. It is the music of the soul.” from an old Irish prayer

“Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.” Mary Webb (The Spring of Joy)

“I have peace of mind, because I want only five things out of life and music: beauty, elegance, excellence, grace and dignity.” Carlos Santana

“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)