First Performance

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

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

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

Musician: Someone who makes a living by playing around - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

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

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky

If you want to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

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

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

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

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

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

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

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

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

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

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