Portable Music Player

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

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

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

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

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

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

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

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

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

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. - William A. Ward

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

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

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. - Unknown

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

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

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

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart