Pianist's Challenge

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

Upright Piano: The noblest musical instrument - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

My music isn't just music - it's medicine. - Unknown

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

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

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

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

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

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

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

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

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

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

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

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

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

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

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

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

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

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

Dubmerol: When taken with Peptobimbo, can cause dangerously low IQ, resulting in enjoyment of country music and pickup trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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