Listening to Hard Rock

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Rock Music: Sung in a rocking chair - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. - James Bramston

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

I hate music - especially when it's played. - Jimmy Durante

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

Music isn't for the eyes - it's for the ears. - Adele

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

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

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

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

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

NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable. - Mitch Hedberg

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

Elvis may have been the king of rock 'n roll, but I am the queen. - Little Richard

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. - Elton John

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

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. - Steven Tyler

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. - Sigmund Freud

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

Everybody talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. - Keith Richards

Work hard. Rock hard. Eat hard. Sleep hard. Grow big. Wear glasses if you need 'em. - Webb Wilder

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. - Ovid

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

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

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono