High-Wire Act Violin

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

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

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

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

Life is like playing violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

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

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

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