Piano Bookshelf

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

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

Books and chocolate make life bearable. - Unknown

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

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

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

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

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

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

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

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

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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 are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

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

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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