If you are already happy, music heightens your joy.
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.
To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.
