Jazz Musicians

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

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

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp

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

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

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

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

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

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

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

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

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. - Erik Satie

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

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

Music Lover: A man, who upon hearing a soprano in the bathroom, puts his ear to the keyhole - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

Silent Disco: A disco in which all the participants wear wireless headphones to hear the music, thus eliminating noise pollution - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

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 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