Make Your Own Plectrum

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

I just go where the guitar takes me. - Angus Young

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

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

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

My music isn't just music - it's medicine. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

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

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

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

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. - Joan Jett

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

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

By the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. - John Entwistle

Any problem that you can't solve with a good guitar is either unsolvable or isn't a problem. - Unknown

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

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

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