Accordion Lessons

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

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

Music comes to me more readily than words. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

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

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes. - Gustav Mahler

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Don't play what's there - play what's not there. - Miles Davis

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

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

The sweetest music in the world to every person is his own name. - Unknown

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

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

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness; those are life-altering lessons. - Jessica Lange

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is "never try." - Homer Simpson

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson after. - Vernon S Law

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

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. - Pat Conroy

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

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

Great music is as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves. - Sting

The only purpose for music should be the glory of God and the re-creation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

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

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

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

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. - C S Lewis

There is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. - Edward Elgar

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. - Frank Zappa

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

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

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. - Al Franken

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'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