El Maestro and the Talented Animalicians

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

Bonjour, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys. - Groundskeeper Willie

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

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

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

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

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

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

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company

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

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

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

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

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

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

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

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

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

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

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. - Chris S Salazar

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

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

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