Piano Shelves

Books think for me. - Charles Lamb

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

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

I don't read books. I write them. - Henry Kissinger

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose. - Steven Wright

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

Life without books, chocolate and coffee is just useless. - Nadun Lokuliyanage

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

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

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. - George Orwell

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F. Skinner

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

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

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur

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

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa

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

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. - Voltaire

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. - Doris Lessing

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. - Evita Peron

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

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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