We don't determine music,
The music determines us;
We only follow it
To the end of our life:
Then it goes on without us.

It begs to be born and,
Wants to go its own way,
We just make it up and,
Then we let it out.

Music speaks for itself,
And needs no explanation
Or justification:
Either it is alive, or it is not.

"Never trouble 'til trouble troubles you."

-- from Steve Lacy. See more of his quotes here

"Silence is part of music."

-- Brahms

"Learn all rules of music, and then forget them!"

-- Haydn told Mozart

"For the hights and depths no man can reach MUSIC is the only speech..." 

-- one of Arkady's all time favorite quotes, author unknown

"Music stupefies persons listening to it, and makes their brains inactive and frivolous!"

-- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini