Bach To Front

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

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

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

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

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

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

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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

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

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. - Herbie Mann

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

Music Lover: A man, who upon hearing a soprano in the bathroom, puts his ear to the keyhole - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

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

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

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'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy Waters, flamenco-type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy. - Jimi Hendrix