El Maestro and the Talented Animalicians

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

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

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

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

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

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. - Cameroon Proverb

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

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

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

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

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

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

Your mother's down there throwing a monkey wrench into the halls of justice. - Archie Bunker

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

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

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

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

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

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

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