#music

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal. ↗

— Hayley Williams

#hayley-williams #jeremy-davis #music #paramore #taylor-york

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. ↗

— Patti Smith

#appease #business #did #flawed #i

Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist! ↗

— Veronika Carnaby

#literature #music #veronika-carnaby #art

Death is a force, not a man in a horse ↗

— Dry the River

#music #beauty

My conception of New York City came from rap music. I envisioned it as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it; no one walked on the streets, rather people drove in their sports cars looking for nightclubs and for violence. ↗

— Ishmael Beah

#music

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#reading #music

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#music

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mark-twain #music #musican #music

There's never a dull day When you're beaten by nonfiction. ↗

— Jay Farrar

#music #music

Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual. ↗