I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Music is love in search of a word.

Music should be your escape.

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.