First Performance

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

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

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

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

My music isn't just music - it's medicine. - Unknown

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

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

The hardest instrument in the orchestra to play is second fiddle. - Leonard Bernstein

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

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G K Chesterton

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

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

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

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

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. - Erik Satie

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

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

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

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

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden

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