Making Music

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

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

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. - Unknown

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

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

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

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

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

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous. - Barry Manilow

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

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

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. - Leonard Bernstein

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

Dubmerol: When taken with Peptobimbo, can cause dangerously low IQ, resulting in enjoyment of country music and pickup trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all. - Steven Tyler

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato