Every men create some sound. Be a melody in this universe not a noise! If you become a melody, the whole universe will listen to you!

-- Mahmet Murat Ildan

Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.

-- Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound.

-- James McKean

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

-- David Levithan

In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the air and the ground all the time, that usually disperses and turns chaotic in our busy-ness and distractedness and moodiness. Artists channel it, corral it, make it visible to the rest of us. The best works of art are like semaphores of our experience, signaling what we didn't know was true but do now.

-- Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow:  The Three Essential Prayers