Jazz Musicians

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

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

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

Country Music: Three chords and the truth - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. - Alfred Hitchcock

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

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

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

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

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

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

Conductor: The musician most likely to get struck by lightning - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G K Chesterton

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

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

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

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

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

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

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. - Herbie Mann

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

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

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

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. - Chris S Salazar

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

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

Dubmerol: When taken with Peptobimbo, can cause dangerously low IQ, resulting in enjoyment of country music and pickup trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

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