Musical Chairs

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

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

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. - Romanian and Russian Proverb

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

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

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

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

Jazz Musician: A juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - H.E. Luccock

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything. - Afrojack

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

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it. - John Lennon

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

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. - Unknown

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. - WC Fields

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

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

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 sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

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

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

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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