Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood, and listening to all kinds of... →
Sandra Cisneros
Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion... →
Eric Clapton
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in... →
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know... →
From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a... →
Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I... →
Music became a healer for me.
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some... →
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it... →