Accordion Lessons

Life is a long lesson in humility. - Sir James M. Barrie

Music is the shorthand of emotion. - Leo Tolstoy

Love is a friendship set to music. - Joseph Campbell

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

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Music is spiritual. The music business is not. - Van Morrison

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. - Ronald Reagan

My music isn't just music - it's medicine. - Unknown

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. - Wole Soyinka

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

Music - what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! - Maria Augusta von Trapp

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. - George Eliot

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham

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

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The Blues and jazz will live forever, so will the Delta and the Big Easy. - Jack Nicholson

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world. - Millie DeWitt

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

If the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. - Nic Sheff

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

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

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

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

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

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

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them. - Plato

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down. - Bob Newhart

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times. - Mario Batall