Keyboard Steps

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. - James Bramston

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

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

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

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

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

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

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

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. - Tyler Winklevoss

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

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