Musical Forks

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

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

Don't dig your grave with a knife and fork. - English Proverb

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

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - 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

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

Liam's like a man with a fork in a world of soup. - Noel Gallagher

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

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

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

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

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

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

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

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

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

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

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

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

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt