Ability Quote by Eyedea

Music is a mysterious phenomenon - it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of…

— Andrew W.K

We feel this passion that we have for music and this relentless need to pursue it and follow it and go wherever it takes.…

— Chrissy Costanza

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going…

— Bela Fleck

I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start…

— Kurt Vile

Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of…

— David Byrne

I think when music, specifically heavy music, the motivation for it is other than truly feeling it, that's when it becomes really difficult for…

— Devin Townsend

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its…

— John Coltrane

It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have…

— Bent Saether

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,…

— John Lydon

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music.…

— Chris Robinson

I can see that everybody has their own challenges that they are dealing with. But what's so beautiful about music is that it brings…

— Frank Dukes

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by…

— Bobby Hutcherson