Watermelon Drums

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

I you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. - Frank Scully

Excellence in any pursuit is the late, ripe fruit of toil. - W.M.L. Jay

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. - Mark Twain

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

Don't let the seeds stop you from enjoying the watermelon. - Unknown

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

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

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

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. - Miles Kington

Life is a slice of watermelon: never without seeds but sweet 'til the bitter end. - Unknown

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

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

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

I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don't require as much cooking. - Carrie Snow

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

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

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

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

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

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

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein

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