El Maestro and the Talented Animalicians

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

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

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

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Interval In Music: The distance from one piano to the next - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

The main thing the public demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

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

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

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

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. - Herbie Mann

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

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

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

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

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart