That's Not A Bagpipe!

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

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

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

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

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

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

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

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

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

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

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

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

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

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

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

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

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

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it. - John Lennon

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

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

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites. - Erin O'Connor

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

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg