Skull Violins

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Unaccompanied: The orchestra is on strike - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

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

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. - Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

Conductor: The musician most likely to get struck by lightning - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

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

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

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

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. - Herbie Mann

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

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

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it. - Paula Poundstone

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!' - Bill Hader

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

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

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

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

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

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