Famous Quotes

"Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative."

Steve Prefontaine 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 Steve Prefontaine

• "A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding."

• "To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift."

• "I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it."

• "A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding."