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Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

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

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

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

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

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

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

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

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

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 is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

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

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

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

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler