Pianist's Challenge

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music, my rampart and my only one. - Edna St Vincent Millay

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

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

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

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

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

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

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

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

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

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

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

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

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

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

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

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

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

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