What's Your Blues Name?

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

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

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

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

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

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

You'll never be as lazy as whoever names the fireplace. - Unknown

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

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

Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. - Japanese Proverb

The main thing the public demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

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

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

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

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

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

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

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where And Who. - Rudyard Kipling

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

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