Third Fiddle

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

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

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

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company

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

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. - Elliott Smith

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

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

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

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

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

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

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

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

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

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

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded. - Jimi Hendrix

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

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

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

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden

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

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