Musical Chairs

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

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

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

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

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

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

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

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde

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

America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

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

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

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

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it. - Edvard Munch

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

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

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair. - Rodney Dangerfield

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

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

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already. - Wendy Liebman

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