Back Peddling Violinist

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

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

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. - Maurice Ravel

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

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

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. - Gloria Steinem

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

Conductor: The musician most likely to get struck by lightning - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - Halford E Luccock

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

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

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle I have hope for the human race. - H G Wells

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

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. - Steve Breen

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

I took lessons in bicycle riding. But I could only afford half of them. Now I can ride a unicycle. - Steven Wright

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

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

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

Dubmerol: When taken with Peptobimbo, can cause dangerously low IQ, resulting in enjoyment of country music and pickup trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato