Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

For me great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn the Punch Brothers and Marc Johnson the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio there's a lot of bluegrass there.

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Nevertheless the passions whether violent or not should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music even in situations of the greatest horror should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it and thereby always remain music.

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about but the inner music that words make.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity and here has its greatest effect on life an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.