Pawano Lessons

Curiosity killed the cat. - English Proverb

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

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

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

When the cat's away, the mice will play. - French Proverb

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

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

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

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

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

Women's clothes: never wear anything that panics the cat. - P.J. O'Rourke

Hairball: When a cat throws up to the basketball hoop, and misses - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's best friend. - Robert J Vogel

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. - Mark Twain

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

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

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain

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

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

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

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

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. - Chris S Salazar

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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