Piano Bookshelf

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Piano is like drudgery. - Warren Zevon

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

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

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

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

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

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

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

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G K Chesterton

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

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

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

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

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

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. - John C Maxwell

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

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books. - Nichole Chase

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

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

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

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

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

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

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

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. - Gail Carriger

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

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

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