First Performance

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

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

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

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

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

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

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

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

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

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

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

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

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

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

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

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

Life is like playing violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

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

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

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

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart