Piano Bookshelf

So many books, so little time. - Frank Zappa

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

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

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

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

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

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

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

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

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

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. - Samuel Butler

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

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you. - Charles Hart

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

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

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

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. - Leigh Hunt

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. - William Cowper

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey

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