"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
- Jimi Hendrix

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom."
- Charlie Parker

"The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it."
- Ray Charles

"Music is just the means of creating a magical state"
- Robert Fripp

"It’s just a chord or riff that inspires me and then I go on and see how it goes color-wise. The whole thing just grows like an acorn or something."
- Jimmy Page

"All the best song writing I do is when my mind isn’t working at all"
- Peter Buck

"The first five or six songs I wrote. I was just taking notes at a fantastic rock concert that was going on inside my head."
- Jim Morrison

"You can have an idea in your head, but if you can’t execute it, what’s the use?"
- Eddie Van Halen

"I can’t read or write music, so sometimes in trying to find things, I just stick my hand on the neck, I visualize things. Sometimes I visualize correctly sometime I don’t."
- Stevie Ray Vaughan

"Writing a song should be fun to play, when a song is a chore to play, the performance never sounds anything but strained."
- Jerry Garcia

"There’s only 2 ways to sum up music, either its good or bad. If its good you don’t mess about it, you enjoy it"
- Louis Armstrong

"A great song is more then just words and music"
- Jimmy Buffet

"Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place"
- Courtney Love

"I think pure rock and roll, good rock and roll, has the same thing that anything that’s pure has—and that’s honesty. Unthinking, primal honesty"
- Paul Stanley

"Basically the whole world is doomed. So The way I try to make it better is by playing music."
- Flea

"I don’t want audiences to feel a specific thing, I just what the audience to feel"
- Paul Simon

"I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way 2 nights in seccession.If you can then it aint music. Its close order drill, or exercise. Not music"
- Billie Holiday

"I can’t talk about my singing I'm inside it: How can You describe something you’re inside of?"
- Janis Joplin

"Performing is just a mixture of every emotion that I’ve ever experienced. Its anger, its death, and its absolute total bliss."
- Kurt Cobain

"I wish it would last forever, but as long as I am able to sit with my guitar on my lap not even to sing to people but just to sing to myself, then I’ll be all right"
- Noel Gallagher

"Music was my refuge."
- Maya Angelou

"If the king loves music. There is little wrong in the land"
- Mencius

"Music is religion for me. There’ll be music in the hereafter. Too."
- Jimi Hendrix

"In the end I think of music as saving grace for all humanity"
- Henry Miller