Banjo Mute

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

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

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

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

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

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

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

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

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

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

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

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

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

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

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

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

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

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden