Sing It Out

Nothing ages like happiness. - Oscar Wilde

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

It is a happy talent to know how to play. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy. - Salma Hayek

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. - Benjamin Spock

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. - Unknown

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

My heart is happy, my mind is free.
I had a father who talked with me. - Hilde Bigelow

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms

If you had been singing like this 2,000 years ago, people would have stoned you. - Simon Cowell

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. - Michael Leunig

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome - and you sing well too. - Yiddish Proverb

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. - Bo Derek

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier

Money can't buy happiness. But, it can buy a chocolate, which is pretty much the same thing. - Hanako Ishii

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. - William Morris

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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. - Bertrand Russell

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

For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back. - Unknown

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. - Bertrand Russell

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

Listen Edith, I know you're singing, you know you're singing, but the neighbors may think I'm torturing you. - Archie Bunker

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

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne

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'm so profoundly happy! Happiness like this is frightening. They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you. - Sofia Akrami

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha