Music making Quote by John Green

“beautiful blues in fine tunes; tunes of bass and brass brass knuckles clad in sweat and tears true to a son of pain; waving…

— Nii Yeboah Norton Nortey

“I had to learn to think, feel and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is…

— Henry Miller

“What it is about painting, how it can hit people exactly like music, and hit people so differently.”

— Peter Heller

“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her…

— Carson McCullers

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom.…

— Tom Robbins

“we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting…

— Tyehimba Jess

“The worst thing an artist can have is too much freedom.”

— Magdalena McGuire

“I sucked in the pungent air and a palette knife of pain sliced through my skull as though my brain were a glob of…

— Kerry Lonsdale

“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!”

— Dee Dee Ramone

“Love songs sweet enough to rot your teeth.”

— Haruki Murakami

“We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.”

— Philip K. Dick

“Your music hurts, the way sunshine hurts when you’ve existed for a long time in darkness.”

— Thea Harrison