Banjo Mute

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

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

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

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

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't. - Johnny Depp

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

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

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

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

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

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

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

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

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

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