For Your Synths

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

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

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

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

Rock and roll: music for the neck downwards. - Keith Richards

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

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

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

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

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

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

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Unknown

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Life is like playing violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde

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

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

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

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison