Making Music Together

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

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

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

Snoring: 1. Sheet music; 2. Sound sleeping. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

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

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

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. - Maurice Ravel

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

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

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

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

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

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

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

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

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

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

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

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 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