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Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

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

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

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

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Buy one of them battery transvester radios. - Archie Bunker

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

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

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

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

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

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

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

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. - Afrojack

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

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

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

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

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

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte