First Performance

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

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

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

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

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

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

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

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

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

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

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

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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

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