Musicians Parking Lot

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. - Buddha

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. - Hector Berlioz

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. - Elbert Hubbard

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. - Unknown

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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 embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt