Pawano Lessons

Piano is like drudgery. - Warren Zevon

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

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

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

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. - Arab Proverb

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

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

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

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat. - Mark Twain

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

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

The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner. - Hebrew Proverb

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

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

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

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

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

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

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

The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat. - Ogden Nash

When rats infest the palace, a lame cat is better than the swiftest horse. - Chinese Proverb

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

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

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

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain

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

Sleep is like my cat. I can call him by his name, but he still won't come to me. - Shane Koyczan

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

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

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

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies. - Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

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

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