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Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions. - Augustus

Lend a horse, and you may have back his skin. - English Proverb

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

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

If I hold you any closer I'll be in back of you. - Groucho Marx

I just want to get back to the shape I'm in now. - Jamie Baulch

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

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back. - Bob Hope

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

When I die, I want to come back as Bobby Layne's chauffeur. - Don Meredith

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

Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad. - Donald Trump

If you want to change the world, don't back down from the sharks! - William H. McRaven

And there's nothing wrong with hitting someone when his back is turned. - Homer Simpson

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you. - Mary Bly

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting the quill back in the goose. - Fred Allen

I just got back from a pleasure trip. I took my mother-in-law to the airport. - Henny Youngman

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

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

It's not who you are that holds you back, It's who you think you're not. - Denis Waitley

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. - David Coleman

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

Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one. - Howard K. Nixon

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back. - Andy Grove

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." - Steven Wright

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

If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there. - Will Rogers

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

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again. - Anatoly Karpov

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

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy Waters, flamenco-type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy. - Jimi Hendrix