Famous Quotes

"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."

Alvin Ailey on Music

More quotes about Music

• "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

  Bob Marley on Music

• "If music be the food of love, play on."

  William Shakespeare on Music

• "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

  Plato on Music

• "Without music, life would be a mistake."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Music

• "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."

  Ray Charles on Music

More quotes by Alvin Ailey

• "My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."

• "I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work."