Why They Sing

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

If I cannot fly, let me sing. - Stephen Sondheim

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

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. - Germany Proverb

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

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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 in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

Can't act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little. - MGM Executive

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

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

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

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

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

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

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

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

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

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

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

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

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

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

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

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

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops - let the rain sing you a lullaby. - Langston Hughes

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

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

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

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

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

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 music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

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

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

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

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

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest. - George Carlin

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart. - Adrian Rogers

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

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

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton