Island Music

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

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

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

You think I just drove in from Long Island on a load of turnips? - Archie Bunker

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

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

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore line of wonder. - Ralph W. Sockman

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

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

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. - Bill O'Reilly

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

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

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

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

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

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've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler

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