All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Everything is music for the born musician.

The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.

Yes, everything's been written, but also, the thing you want to write, before you wrote it, was impossible to write. Otherwise it would already exist. Your writing makes it possible.

Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed,
Everybody knows that the war is over,
Everybody knows the good guys lost.

All that you can imagine you already know

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

I think there will always be great new music and bands. As long as there's people around, there's going to be great music. I think there's bands like Wolf Eyes, Q & Not U, the Evens and many others that are doing great stuff. The music that doesn't please you, you just don't listen. No one makes me listen to Nickelback, so long may they wave.

And I think of the sins I already belong to, all the secrets I already know. I am already fertile with the forest and the fog, my mind pregnant with all the things she wishes I didn’t know.

All sounds have been as music to my listening