Bach To Front

Bach in an hour. Offenbach sooner. - Unknown

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. - Irish Proverb

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

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

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

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

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

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

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

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

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

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. - Samuel Johnson

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

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

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

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

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

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

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

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

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

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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