First Performance

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch. - George Carlin

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

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

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

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

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

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

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

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

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

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

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

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

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

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

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

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

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

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

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 don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart