Sap time - Looking for a quote about music/friendship/love/religion

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I'm looking for a relatively short quote that includes aspects of friendship and/or love and/or religion (religion being the least important aspect) .. and it can either also include a musical reference or be a lyric, but MUST be musically-related somehow. Preferably, all of the above, and not an Elton John Lyric. Something profound, but not maudlin -

I can't find anything on the Web - everything is such a fucking cliche' ...

.. What have you got?

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 5 May 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

And in the end the love you make is equal to the love you make.

― Scaredy Cat, Monday, 5 May 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"We don't go to their parties--yeah because they're the ENEMY! We don't go to their parties, and we don't talk like they talk. Baby baby, allergies, in the Vampire Colony!"
Nation of Ulysses

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 May 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

er, one of those "makes" should be "take"...

... the love you take is equal to the love you make... but you knew taht already.

― Scaredy Cat, Monday, 5 May 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

imagine all the people....

blah blah...

... and no religion, too...

― Scaredy Cat, Monday, 5 May 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

.. Oh, and no Beatles quotes....

No recognizable-by-most-people lyrics .. I'd prefer something that isn't well-known...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Peace in a world free from religion peace in a world where everyone gets heaven peace in a world free from religion peace in a world "

...from...er... "Die Like a Dog" by Curve

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"I won't say I love you cuz the way I feel is greater. - Tariq Trotter aka 'Black Thought', The Roots, "Water"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

So...ah...no "What would you do if I sang out of key?"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, that prob'ly doesn't help nothing, I just like that line a lot.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Screw You, We're From Texas" Ray Wylie Hubbard (went to his cupboard)

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"My theory is that music is good; it's the only religion that delivers the goods." - Frank Zappa

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Idle toying, worship the whore,
Forbidden was bidden,
kiss turned to gnaw
Indolent minds, broken rules
The grey land is falling,
Laugh at the fools
We have Joy - We have Joy!
We was drunk, intoxicate
No time for doubt, no time, no late
I saw the laughing one - this was the West
he said "take your spear and puncture the flesh"
We have Joy! - We have Joy!

We was drunk, intoxicate
No time for doubt, no time, no late
Brandish the weapon, Sound out the din
We feeling red now - time to move in
We have Joy - We have Joy!

"We Have Joy" by Killing Joke.....naturally

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahaha, I never thought Killing Joke would make me think of Terry Jacks.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Some go to women, some go to Jesus, and I'm absolutely certain both's alright. But it takes me halfway to the label, before I can even make it through the night" - Van Halen, "Take Your Whiskey Home"

― dave q, Monday, 5 May 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"Yeah I'm in love and when I say 'love' you better believe I mean L-U-V luuuuv......" - Nation of Ulysses

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Monday, 5 May 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be better to know what the quote is for as to rule out things that wouldn't be appropriate.

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 5 May 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, to highlight the inappropriateness of most of the quotes so far - the quote is needed for an inscription on a musical instrument for a scholar of religious music. The quote doesn't need to be religious - but should probably be respectful.

This is what I've found:
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."(Ludwig van Beethoven)

"Play the music, not the instrument."

..neither are exactly what I'm after, but closer than the Van Halen quote. (Nice try though dave.) I love the Zappa quote - it works for me, but not for the person this is going to...

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 5 May 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Music is the Voice of God." - Unknown

― Brandon Gentry (Brandon Gentry), Monday, 5 May 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy

What's best in music is not to be found in the notes."
- Gustav Mahler

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 5 May 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It comes from your head, heart and drawers and sometimes not in that order."- David Lee Roth

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 5 May 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"It makes your knees freeze and your bladder splatter" - Peter Wolf

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we have a winner.

― Carey (Carey), Monday, 5 May 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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