Jazz Musicians

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

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

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

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

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. - James Bramston

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

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

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

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

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

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

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company

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

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. - Sergei Rachmaninoff

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

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

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

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

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

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

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

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

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

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

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

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte