Why They Sing

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Unaccompanied: The orchestra is on strike - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. - Pierre Beaumarchais

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

The only thing better than singing is more singing. - Ella Fitzgerald

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

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

Musician: Someone who makes a living by playing around - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong

Wake up, live your life and sing the melody of your soul. - Amit Ray

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

Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. - Emory Austin

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

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

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

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

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

People say that I can't sing. But they can't say I didn't sing. - Florence Foster Jenkins

There's no such thing as a wrong note as long as you're singing it. - Pete Seeger

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

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

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

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five. - Mick Jagger

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

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

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

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

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

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

I remember when the candle shop burned won. Everyone stood around singing "Happy Birthday." - Steven Wright

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. - Pete Seeger

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

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

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

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

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

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

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

Silent Disco: A disco in which all the participants wear wireless headphones to hear the music, thus eliminating noise pollution - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

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

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

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

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've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler