Jazz Musicians

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

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

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

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

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

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

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

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

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

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

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

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

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

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

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