Family Music

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Something bad has befelt the family. - Archie Bunker

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

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

The family is the nucleus of civilization. - William Durant

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

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

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

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

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

There's no such thing as fun for the whole family. - Jerry Seinfeld

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

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

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. - Erma Bombeck

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

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

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

I think the family was from Hungaria. (talking about Noah's Ark) - Archie Bunker

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

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

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. - Bill Keane

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

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

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

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. - Gail L. Buckley

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

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

I don't think he's gonna come Edith. He just ain't got none of that, waddya call, family unconscious. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. - Antonin Scalia