Pawano Lessons

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

When the cat dies, the mice rejoice. - African saying

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. - Hazel Nicholson

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

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

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

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

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

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

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

The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat. - Ogden Nash

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

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

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain

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

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

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

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

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

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

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

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono