Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Music Quotes
Feed the musician, and he’s out of tune.
Music is only love looking for words.
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
The chorus part came to me first, and I’d sorta hum that over and over. Then I later figured out that the verses would start low and move up. The first two lines, which rhymed “kiddin’ you” and “didn’t you,” just about knocked me out; and later on when I got to the jugglers and […]
A lifetime of listening to disco is a high price to pay for one’s sexual preference.
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… I get most joy in life out of music.
Groups are out, four piece groups with guitars particularly are finished. The boys won’t go, Mr. Epstein. We know these things. You have a good business in Liverpool. Stick to that. (Decca Records, 1962)
When I was nine, I got “With The Beatles,” and my grandma bought me a honky old drum and an old cymbal. That’s it, isn’t it; what more is there? A drum, a cymbal and “With The Beatles.” Has the world really come on much further?
A decisive moment in the history of Western civilization. (About “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” in the London Times, 1977)
