Favorite Quotations ~  Music, 4 Blue Note Records

"The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what it is the Source." ~ B. B. King

King of the Blues

The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That’s why music has always had such power to move people into positive action. ~ Kenny Loggins

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

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

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

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Music is the shorthand of emotion.~ Leo Tolstoy

Yes, death is strong, but . . . stronger is music than death. ~ Franz Werfel

Where there is music there can be no evil. ~ Cervantes

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ...I get most you in life out of music. ~ Albert Einstein

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ~ Lawrence Durrell

I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas. ~ Chuck Cannon

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love. ~ Andrea Bocelli, USA Today, 9/3/04

Music is an outburst of the soul. ~ Frederick Delius

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music. ~ Paula Cole

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