For Your Synths

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

Music, my rampart and my only one. - Edna St Vincent Millay

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Snoring: 1. Sheet music; 2. Sound sleeping. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx

The main thing the public demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. - Herbie Hancock

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

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

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

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

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

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

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

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. - Chris S Salazar

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. - William Shakespeare

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

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

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

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

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