Happy 4th of July

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

You rarely meet a wino with perfect pitch. - George Carlin

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

In rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. - Belinda Carlisle

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

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

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

There are two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind. - Louis Armstrong

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Excise: The clothes hanging in your closet that fit before the holidays. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

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

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

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

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

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all. - Josh Homme

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. - Thomas Carlyle

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

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

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. - Oscar Wilde

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular. - Amity Shlaes

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. - Pete Seeger

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down. - Dimebag Darrell

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

They invented the three-day bank holiday weekend because you can't lump all the bad weather into just Saturday and Sunday. - Unknown

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

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

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

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton

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

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. - Marvin Olasky