What's Your Blues Name?

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

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch. - George Carlin

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. - Irish Proverb

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

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F Kennedy

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

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

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

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

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

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

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. - W H Auden

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

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

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

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name BZJXXLLWCP is pronounced Jackson. - Mark Twain

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

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

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 always buy familiar names, the ones you recognize; that's why the adman always claims it pays to advertise. - Unknown

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

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

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