Jazz Musicians

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

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

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

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

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

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

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

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

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

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

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

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

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

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

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

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

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

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

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

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart