Bach Scratching

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

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

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

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

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

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

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

Interval In Music: The distance from one piano to the next - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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

If you scratch a cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist. - George Carlin

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

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

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

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

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

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

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

I'm amazed that my wife and I created two human beings from scratch, yet struggle to assemble the most basic of IKEA cabinets. - John Kinnear

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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - 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