Piano Bookshelf

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Books are uniquely portable magic. - Stephen King

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

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

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

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

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

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

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

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

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

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

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

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

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

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