El Maestro and the Talented Animalicians

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Unaccompanied: The orchestra is on strike - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

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

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

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

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

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

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

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

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

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. - Erik Satie

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

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. - Mark Twain

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

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

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

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

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

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

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