Hokey Pokey Addict

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

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

There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. - Lynda Renham

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

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

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

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Unknown

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

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

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

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

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

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

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. - Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless... but all are priceless. - Unknown

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper