El Maestro and the Talented Animalicians

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

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

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. - Cameroon Proverb

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

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

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

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

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

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

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

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

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

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

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

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart