Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I…

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

— John Gardner

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it.…

— Horace Silver

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

— Richard Paul Evans

Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

— Heitor Villa-Lobos

Western music is Bach, Handel and Schubert. It's good music, cleverly done. As a musician, I can see that.

— Fela Kuti

I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there's been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every…

— Eddie Rabbitt

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is…

— Pierre Schaeffer

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is…

— Vladimir Horowitz

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop,

— Donald Byrd

The music of Bach is so timeless, so fulfilling. You don't feel like you have to be in front of it. The music has…

— Andris Nelsons

I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and…

— Anna Mouglalis

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

— Ennio Morricone