For Your Synths

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

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

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

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

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Life is like playing violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

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

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

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

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

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

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

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

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

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

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden