Keyboard Steps

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

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

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

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

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

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

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

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

The 12-step chocolate program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! - Terry Moore

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

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

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

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. - Elizabeth Holmes

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

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

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte