First Performance

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. - Alfred Hitchcock

Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

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

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

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

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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

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

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

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Music Lover: A man, who upon hearing a soprano in the bathroom, puts his ear to the keyhole - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

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

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

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

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

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

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 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

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

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

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

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato