Piano Bookshelf

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

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

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman

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

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

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

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

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

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

Carpenter: 1. A guy who nails down his agreement; 2. A shelf made man. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

Better one line that will survive the author than a hundred books outlived. - Unknown

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? - Bette Midler

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. - Ernest Hemingway

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

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

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. - Chris S Salazar

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

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

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

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham

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