El Maestro and the Talented Animalicians

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Unaccompanied: The orchestra is on strike - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Snoring: 1. Sheet music; 2. Sound sleeping. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

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

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Trouble came - as trouble so often does - with a monkey. - Paul Collins

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

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

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

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. - Erik Satie

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

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. - Afrojack

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

Music Lover: A man, who upon hearing a soprano in the bathroom, puts his ear to the keyhole - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

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

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Monkey: 1. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees; 2. A key that won't open a door. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

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

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver