Keyboard Steps

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch. - George Carlin

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

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

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

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

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

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

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

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

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

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

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

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

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

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

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

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

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 I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

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

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato