Making Music Together

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Music is the soundtrack of your life. - Dick Clark

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

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

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

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

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

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

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

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

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

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

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

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

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

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

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler

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