Piano Bookshelf

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker

A multitude of books distracts the mind. - Seneca

Snoring: 1. Sheet music; 2. Sound sleeping. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. - Neil Gaiman

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

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

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. - Petrarch

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. - American Proverb

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

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

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

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

My problem with reading books is that I get distracted. By other books. - Unknown

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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

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

A mere scholar, who knows nothing but books, must be ignorant even of them. - William Hazlitt

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Books are no different from goats - they enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. - Kate Bernheimer

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

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

Music Lover: A man, who upon hearing a soprano in the bathroom, puts his ear to the keyhole - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - H L Mencken

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. - John Wooden

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

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

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

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