First Performance

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Rock Music: Sung in a rocking chair - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Unaccompanied: The orchestra is on strike - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

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

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

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

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

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

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

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

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

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

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

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