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

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

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. - Xila Toro

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

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

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

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. - W H Auden

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

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

I wanted to be an atheist, but I gave up. They have no holidays. - Henny Youngman

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

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

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

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

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

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

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

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

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

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

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

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

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

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

Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are. - David Letterman

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

The twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. - Igor Stravinsky

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? - Lara Flynn Boyle

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

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi