Banjo Mute

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. - Irish Proverb

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

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

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

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

Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

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

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

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

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

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

The main thing the public demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

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

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

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

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

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

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

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

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

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

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