Pianist's Challenge

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

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

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

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

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

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

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

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

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

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

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

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

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

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

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

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