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Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

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

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

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

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

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

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

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

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

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

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

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

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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

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

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

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

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. - Afrojack

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

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

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham

Reporter to Beatles during their first US tour: "How do you find America?"
Ringo Starr: "Turn left at Greenland." - Ringo Starr