Back Peddling Violinist

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

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

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. - Irish Proverb

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. - George Foreman

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

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

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

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. - Afrojack

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

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

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

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

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

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

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

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

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

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

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte