What's Your Blues Name?

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

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

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

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

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

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

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

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

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Danish Proverb

Musician: Someone who makes a living by playing around - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. - Plato

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

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

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

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

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. - Arnold Palmer

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself. - Jim Drain

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

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

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

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono