Pianist's Challenge

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

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

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

"To Start Press Any Key." Where's the ANY key? - Homer Simpson

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

If you want to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

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

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

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

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono

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