El Maestro and the Talented Animalicians

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. - James Goldsmith

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

Upright Piano: The noblest musical instrument - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. - Maurice Ravel

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

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

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

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

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

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

I'm thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, 'Why stop at one?' - Robert Downey Jr

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss

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

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. - Mark Twain

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people's drama, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys. - Polish Proverb

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward. - Daniel H. Pink