Making Music Together

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

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

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

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

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

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

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

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

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

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

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

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

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

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

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

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 expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

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

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