Banjo Mute

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

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

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

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G K Chesterton

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

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

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

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

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

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

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

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

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

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

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

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