Sing It Out

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. - Alfred Hitchcock

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

I am happy and content because I think I am. - Alain-René Lesage

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. - J M Barrie

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

The City of Happiness is found in the State of Mind. - Unknown

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

Happy birthday to a sister who has the best sister in the world. - Unknown

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

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. - Dalai Lama

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. - Aldous Huxley

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. - Ellen Degeneres

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. - Doug Larson

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. - Alfred Renyi

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. - Mary Lou Retton

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? - Kahlil Gibran

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. - Iris Murdoch

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

We can't control the world. We can only barely control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. - David C Hill

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass. Get up, get up, get up! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. - Steve Maraboli

What brought me into the TV business is what keeps me here and happy. You can learn something new every day if you have a really positive attitude. - Katie Couric

I'm so profoundly happy! Happiness like this is frightening. They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you. - Sofia Akrami