Back Peddling Violinist

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

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. - Irish Proverb

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

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

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

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

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Unknown

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

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

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

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

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

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

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

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

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

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

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 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

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

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

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt