What's Your Blues Name?

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

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

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

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

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

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. - Maurice Ravel

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

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

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

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

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

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. - Duke Ellington

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

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

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

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

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 is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

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

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

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

Silent Disco: A disco in which all the participants wear wireless headphones to hear the music, thus eliminating noise pollution - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

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

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

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden

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