QuotaBillsThe 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