Essentials Quote by Woodrow Wilson

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

— Richard Dreyfuss

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor…

— Robert Shaw

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're…

— Ice Cube

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

— Ry Cooder

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

— Anonymous

When country music is doing its job, it reports on the good, bad and indifferent of our human condition.

— Marty Stuart

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

— Langston Hughes

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

— Fela Kuti

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we…

— John Mellencamp

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve…

— Billy Corgan

We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this,…

— Marilynne Robinson