That's Not A Bagpipe!

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. - Scottish Proverb

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein