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Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch. - George Carlin

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

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

I you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. - George Foreman

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

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

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

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

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

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

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

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

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

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

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono