QuotaBillsJazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis
Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa
Unaccompanied: The orchestra is on strike - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. - Irish Proverb
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man. - Horace
My music isn't just music - it's medicine. - Unknown
The only love affair I have ever had was with music. - Maurice Ravel
Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked
Musician: Someone who makes a living by playing around - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson
Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx
The hardest instrument in the orchestra to play is second fiddle. - Leonard Bernstein
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company
Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. - Huey P. Newton
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius
We tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn. - Don Campbell
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. - Sir William Temple
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
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler
The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach
It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan
Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith
If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian
If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare
There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll
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
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin