Ballerina Lessons

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

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. - Kurt Vonnegut

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

The main thing the public demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

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

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

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

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

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

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

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

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

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

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

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

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

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

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

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

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt