Ballerina Lessons

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Rock Music: Sung in a rocking chair - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

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

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch. - George Carlin

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

My music isn't just music - it's medicine. - Unknown

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - Halford E Luccock

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

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

If you want to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss

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

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. - Erik Satie

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

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

Music Lover: A man, who upon hearing a soprano in the bathroom, puts his ear to the keyhole - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

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

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. - Chris S Salazar

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 is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono