Piano Bookshelf

Piano is like drudgery. - Warren Zevon

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

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

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

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

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

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

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

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

When I was your age, television was called books. - William Goldman

A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

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

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

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

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

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

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

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

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

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned now to cook. - Andy Rooney

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

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