For Your Synths

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano. - Alfred Hitchcock

Love is not love without a violin playing goat. - Julia Roberts

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

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

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

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

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

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

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

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 is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

Just as Jesus created wine from water, we humans are capable of transmuting emotion into music. - Carlos Santana

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

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

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

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

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

Silent Disco: A disco in which all the participants wear wireless headphones to hear the music, thus eliminating noise pollution - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

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

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. - Albert Einstein

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