The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

Music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

Music is truthful... Music attracts the angels in the universe.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.