Keyboard Steps

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

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

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

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

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

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

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. - George Foreman

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

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

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward

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

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

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

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

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