Third Fiddle

Keep calm and play guitar. - Unknown

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

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

My first love was the sound of guitar. - Boz Scaggs

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

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

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

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

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. - Joan Jett

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped. - Calvin Coolidge

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

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

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

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

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

Any problem that you can't solve with a good guitar is either unsolvable or isn't a problem. - Unknown

I never practice my guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat. - Wes Montgomery

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

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

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. - Glenn Frey