Pawano Lessons

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

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

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

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

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

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

The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner. - Hebrew Proverb

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

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

If the cat sits long enough at the hole, it will catch the mouse. - Irish proverb

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

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 lame cat is better than a swift horse when rats infest the palace. - Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. - Warren Eckstein

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

It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. - Spanish Proverb

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

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

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Doug Larson

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. - Jolene Blalock

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

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

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

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 sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde