Pawano Lessons

Curiosity killed the cat. - English Proverb

Meow means "woof" in cat. - George Carlin

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

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

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

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

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

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

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

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

When rats infest the palace, a lame cat is better than the swiftest horse. - Chinese Proverb

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

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. - Groucho Marx

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

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

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

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. - Mark Twain

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

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

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

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

A tom cat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded, "Take me to the Canaries." - Bob Monkhouse

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

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

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 animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain

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