El Maestro and the Talented Animalicians

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. - James Goldsmith

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

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

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

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

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

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

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

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. - George Foreman

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

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

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

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

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

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

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

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

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

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

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

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

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

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

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen