Quotes About Music

Whenever I have a problem, I sing. Then I realize my voice is a lot worse than my problem.

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.

The Bear sat at the other end; the rhythm section was arrayed between them like a string of pearls.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes Oh no no no no no . . . Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated

I've heard of sweatin' to the oldies, but this was like drowning in the moldies." - Cher

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

The reason we remember song lyrics more easily than poetry is that music is stored in the cleaner, mathematical side of our brains. Poetry is shoveled into the cluttered, creative side.

Fun is all about our brains feeling good — the release of endorphins* into our system. There are a variety of complex cocktails of chemicals that result in different sensations. Science has shown that the pleasurable chills that we get down the spine after exceptionally powerful music or a really great book are caused by the same sorts of chemicals we get when we have cocaine, an orgasm, or chocolate.

One of the greatest pleasures of music is to make other people listen to it; to feel, for just a moment, a tiny part of an ideal world in which everything is good, beautiful, harmony, love.

**(C)(P) REGGAE HISTORY IS BLACK HISTORY. IT IS A REGGAE EDUCATION FOR A HEALING OF THE NATIONS. I CREATED IT IN MY 1962 TRENCH TOWN BACKYARD AND OWNS EXCLUSIVELY THE COPYRIGHTS FOR ITS CREATION.REGGAE-ORIGIN OF THE WORD AND INCORPORATION INTO MUSIC. SEE THE USA COPYRIGHTS OFFICE.

***(C)(P) I WILL SAY THIS WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY:-I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS THE CONTEXT AND MEANINGS BEHIND EVERY REGGAE SONGS MADE BY BOB MARLEY, PETER , BUNNY, AND OTHERS FROM OUR TRENCH TOWN REGGAE FAMILY.NO ONE ELSE CAN SAY THAT.I SHARED MANY OF MY LYRICAL TEACHINGS WITH THEM AND LIVED THE EXPERIENCES. WHO WOULD DARE TO CONTEST ME?

conglomerhates-this is a term that I coined while noticing the umbrella strategy under which certain entities in the -murderous music industry- steal the wailers reggae legacy. it was also a strategy developedin the early 1800's by which some sets of folks joined forces with each other to the exclusion of some, thereby monopolizing the market. today, we see the umg/bmg system of music and entertainment conglomerhates/conglomerates- doing the same thing.

my reggae music was created to chant down babylon. I/we said-they see their dreams and aspirations crumble in front of their face, and all of their wicked intentions to destroy the human race- my reasonings with bob marley and the trench town people put into song.