Banjo Mute

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

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

Unaccompanied: The orchestra is on strike - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

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

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

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

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

I you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. - Louis Armstrong

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

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

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

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

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

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it. - John Lennon

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

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

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

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

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

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

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono