Pianist's Challenge

Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

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

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

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

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

The hardest instrument in the orchestra to play is second fiddle. - Leonard Bernstein

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

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G K Chesterton

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

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

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

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

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

Keyboard: 1. Place to hang your keys; 2. The standard way to generate computer errors. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

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

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

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

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

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato