Accordion Lessons

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

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

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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. - Oscar Wilde

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. - Sting

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

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

The hardest instrument in the orchestra to play is second fiddle. - Leonard Bernstein

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

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

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

My metabolism stinks. I can gain weight just listening to dinner music. - Ron Dentinger

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

If you want to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

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

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

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

People are put into your life for reasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons. - Selena Gomez

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

I took lessons in bicycle riding. But I could only afford half of them. Now I can ride a unicycle. - Steven Wright

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

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

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

If Music is a Place - then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. - Vera Nazarian

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

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

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

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

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

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt. - Bono

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. - Barbara de Angelis

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