Keyboard Steps

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

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

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

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch. - George Carlin

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

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

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

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

I you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

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

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

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

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

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

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison

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

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

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

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Have a bias towards action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. - Indira Gandhi