Chinese Music School

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

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

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

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

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. - Charles de Gaulle

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

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

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

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

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

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. - George Foreman

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

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

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

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. - Rob Lowe

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Life is like playing violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

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

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

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. - Herbie Mann

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Like a bull into a china closet. Like in that picture, "The Prince and The Porpoise." - Archie Bunker

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

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

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

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

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

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

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters. - Jan Wong

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

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

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

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart