Banjo Mute

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

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

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

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

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

The main thing the public demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

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

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

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse. - Patrick Rothfuss

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

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

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. - Herbie Mann

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

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

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

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

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. - Chris S Salazar

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

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