Back Peddling Violinist

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Music, my rampart and my only one. - Edna St Vincent Millay

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

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. - Alfred Hitchcock

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

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. - James Bramston

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

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

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

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

I you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong

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

Interval In Music: The distance from one piano to the next - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

The main thing the public demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

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

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

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

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

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

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

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. - Andrea Bocelli

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

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