Musical Chairs

Jazz is democracy in music. - Wynton Marsalis

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. - Irish Proverb

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

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

The earth has its music for those who will listen. - George Santayana

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. - Pablo Casals

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

Each soul is tuned to a different pitch. Music is about harmonizing the soul. - Wu-Tang Clan

Committee work is like a soft chair - easy to get into but hard to get out of. - Kenneth J Shively

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

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

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. - Herbie Mann

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. - Billy Corgan

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

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

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already. - Wendy Liebman

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

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. - Hal Linden