For Your Synths

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. - Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G K Chesterton

The main thing the public demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

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

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

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

Silent Disco: A disco in which all the participants wear wireless headphones to hear the music, thus eliminating noise pollution - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato