Happy 4th of July

The 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