The Ukuitarbas - cross between a ukulele, guitar, and a bass - with a bow holder attached to the tailpiece
QuotaBillsCanned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke
Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards
Guitar players never listen to lead singers. - Steven Tyler
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven
I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante
Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy
I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky
Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx
The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler
If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge
Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. - Hugh Kingsmill
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov
The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler
Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D Eisenhower
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Any problem that you can't solve with a good guitar is either unsolvable or isn't a problem. - Unknown
I never practice my guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat. - Wes Montgomery
Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker
The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard
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
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. - Andres Segovia
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt
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