Friday, May 02, 2008

Everybody's dancing. Come on, children. Come on, children. Come on clap your hands.

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without." ~Confucius

"I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional." ~Jerry Garcia

"There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But, I’ve got it." ~Ron Wood

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below." ~Joseph Addison

“I thought ‘Stairway’ crystallized the essence of Led Zeppelin. It had everything there, and showed the band at its best … every musician wants to do something that will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did that with ‘Stairway To Heaven.’ …” ~Jimmy Page

“Music is my religion.” ~Jimi Hendrix

“I’ve always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.” ~Aretha Franklin

“You are the music while the music lasts.” ~T.S. Eliot

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