Sing It Out

Happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle

No one is happy all his life long. - Euripides

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Those who wish to sing, always find a song. - Swedish Proverb

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. - Werner Erhard

You're the blacksmith of your own happiness. - Swedish Proverb

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer

We are no longer happy, so soon as we wish to be happier. - Walter Savage Landor

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

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

To be happy in the home is the ultimate result of all ambition. - Samuel Johnson

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. - Heraclitus

The hardest instrument in the orchestra to play is second fiddle. - Leonard Bernstein

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. - Gertrude Stein

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

It's not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy. - Unknown

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. - Joseph Roux

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. - William Butler Yeats

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. - Floyd W Tomkins

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. - Hugh Downs

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. - Bertrand Russell

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. - Don Fraser

Listen Edith, I know you're singing, you know you're singing, but the neighbors may think I'm torturing you. - Archie Bunker

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

The key to happiness and youth is an unencumbered spirit – whether it comes naturally or whether you have to work hard for it. - Emme Woodhull-Bache

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

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest. - George Carlin

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape. - Sammy Hagar