QuotaBillsThe only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac
The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits
I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. - Alfred Hitchcock
Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison
Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello
After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner
Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company
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
Take notes on the spot. A note is worth a cart-load of recollections. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? - Luciano Pavarotti
My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger
The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson
When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin
The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. - Erik Satie
There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan
Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln
I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. - Afrojack
The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon
If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova
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
Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular. - Amity Shlaes
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther
If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian
What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa
Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison