Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

- Jean Paul

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

- Jean Cocteau

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

- Steve Reich

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

- Albert Einstein

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

- John Green

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

- Neko Case

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

- Smokey Robinson

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

- Jacques Barzun

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

- Igor Stravinsky

If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.

- Fuzzy Zoeller