Island Music

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

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

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

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

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

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

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G K Chesterton

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

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

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

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

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

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

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

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

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

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all. - Christopher Columbus

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono