Piano Bookshelf

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

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

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

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

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

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

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

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. - John Wooden

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

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

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

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

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

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

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

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

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

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. - Sigmund Freud

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned now to cook. - Andy Rooney

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein