Piano Bookshelf

Music, my rampart and my only one. - Edna St Vincent Millay

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

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

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

My music isn't just music - it's medicine. - Unknown

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

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

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

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

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

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

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

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

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

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

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

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

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

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

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. - Evita Peron

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

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

Silent Disco: A disco in which all the participants wear wireless headphones to hear the music, thus eliminating noise pollution - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

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

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal