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Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

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

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

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

WYMI - the all-philosophy radio station. - Mike Dugan

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

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

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

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

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. - Rodney Dangerfield

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

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

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

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. - Afrojack

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

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

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. - Fred Allen

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

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

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

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