“I was thinking about the boy whose name is Julian, and I started this idea, 'Hey Jules, don’t make it bad.'”

“Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.”

“Without music life is a journey through a desert.”

“A good song is a good song. You can jazz it up with whatever rhythm you like, but if the song is there, it stands.”

“The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.”

“The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”

“Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.”

“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.”