Sing It Out

Happiness was born a twin. - Lord Byron

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. - Bertrand Russell

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy. - Salma Hayek

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

You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy. - Bob Ross

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. - J. Petit Senn

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. - Ambrose Bierce

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers? - Unknown

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. - Abraham Lincoln

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. - Eric Hoffer

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. - Mother Teresa

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. - Benjamin Franklin

The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. - Martha Washington

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. - Marcus Aurelius

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy. - Unknown

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. - Groucho Marx

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it. - Michael McDonald

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

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. - Johnny Carson

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

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window - or break down a door. - Brooke Shields

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. - Robert R. Updegraff

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person. - Quentin Crisp

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

If you get up in the morning and you say, 'I got to go to work. How can I get out of this?' you're not happy. - Red Auerbach

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles Schulz

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. - Emerson

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. - Dale Carnegie

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy Waters, flamenco-type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy. - Jimi Hendrix