Jazz Musicians

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

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

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. - James Bramston

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

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

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

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

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

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

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

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

If you want to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

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

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

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

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

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

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

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono