Jazz Musicians

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

I you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. - Kurt Vonnegut

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

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

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

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

Jazz Musician: A juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

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

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

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

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

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

Silent Disco: A disco in which all the participants wear wireless headphones to hear the music, thus eliminating noise pollution - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

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