With Or Without The Beatles

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

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

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

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

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

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

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

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

Jazz Musician: A juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

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

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

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

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

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

If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder. - George Harrison

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

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

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. - Robert Frost

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - 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

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

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 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

Reporter to Beatles during their first US tour: "How do you find America?"
Ringo Starr: "Turn left at Greenland." - Ringo Starr

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

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