Punk is

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

~Kurt Cobain

In a handful of ocean water

In a handful of ocean water
You could not count all the finely tuned
Musicians

Who are acting stoned
For very intelligent and sane reasons

And of course are becoming extremely sweet
And wild.

~Hafiz

The lullaby

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

~James Fenton

We are members

"We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole."

~J. Allen Boone

The science of

"The science of the future will be based on Sympathetic Vibrations."

~Rudolph Steiner

I try

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

Joan Miro

The key of D

“The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.”

Marian McPartland

When I have been to sea

When I have been to sea close under the cliffs, of a fine summer's night, I have heard the sweetest music, and seen hundreds of little lights moving about amongst what looked like flowers. Ay! and they are flowers too, for you may smell the sweet scent far out at sea.

~Saint Levan, Cornwall

Oh music

Oh music,
In your depths we deposit our hearts and souls.
Thou has taught us to see with our eyes
and hear with our hearts.

~Kahlil Gibran

Before the world

Before the world was, all was in sound.
God was in sound, we are made of sound.

~Harrat Inayat Khan

Listen

Listen, listen, listen to my heart's song
I will never forget you, I will never forsake you.

~Paramahansa Yogananda

Music

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

~Thomas Carlyle

While I agree

Bill: While I agree that in time our band will be most triumphant. The truth is Wyld Stallions will never be a super band until we get Eddie Van Halen on guitar.
Ted: Yes, Bill. But, I do not believe we will get Eddie Van Halen until we have a triumphant video.
Bill: Ted, it's pointless to have a triumphant video before we even have descent instruments.
Ted: Well, how can we have descent instruments when we don't really even know how to play?
Bill: That is why we need Eddie Van Halen!
Ted: And, that is why we need a triumphant video!

~Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Deaf folk hear

Deaf folk hear the fairies
However soft their song;
'Tis we who lose the honey sound
Amid the clamor all around
That beats the whole day long.

~Rose Fyleman

There are two

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

-Albert Schweitzer

What know we

What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

~William Wordsworth

A painter

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

~Leopold Stokowski

A nice definition

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

~Anthony De Mello

You know, sometimes

You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

~Itzhak Perlman

Today, like every other day

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

~Rumi