One Eyed Bob

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

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

I was quiet, but I was not blind. - Jane Austen

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

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

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

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

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. - Paula Deen

What is research but a blind date with knowledge? - Will Harvey

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

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

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Erasmus

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee. - Bobby Heenan

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

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

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? - George Carlin

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why. - Ernest Renan

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

Jazz Musician: A juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. - Voltaire

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

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

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

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

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

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

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

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

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind. - William Wordsworth

My nickname is 'Mom', but my full name is 'Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom.' - Unknown

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. - A.J. Liebling

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

I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism. - Sylvester Stallone

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal! - Horatio Nelson

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

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

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare

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

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

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

I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage. - Stevie Wonder

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

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

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. - Chester Bennington

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

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

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. - Robert A. Wilson

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. - William Blake

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

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

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith. - Aung San Suu Kyi