Pianist's Challenge

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

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

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

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

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

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

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

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

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

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

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

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

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

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

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

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

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