Back Peddling Violinist

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

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

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

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

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

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

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

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

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

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

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

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

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

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

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

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

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

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

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 being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

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

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

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

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden