Why They Sing

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Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

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

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

Hummer: A vehicle that can't sing - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

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

The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs. - Tanyas

Upright Piano: The noblest musical instrument - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

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

As Doris Day used to sing "Que Seroo Seroo." - Archie Bunker

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

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

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

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

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

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

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

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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

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

There are ways of singing in English that are not just the same as in French. - Coeur de Pirate

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

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. - Hank Williams

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

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

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 an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

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

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

It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, 'if you want it your way, cook it yourself.' - Johnny Carson

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

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

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

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

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

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

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. - Hoosier Farmer

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 Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

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

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