That's Not A Bagpipe!

Keep calm and bagpipe on. - Unknown

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

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

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both. - Jack Finney

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

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

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

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

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham