Island Music

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

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

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

Take a cruise down to the Virgin's Island. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

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

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

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

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

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle

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

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

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

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

A lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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