Happy 4th of July

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

In music the passions enjoy themselves. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Unaccompanied: The orchestra is on strike - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Without music, life would be a blank to me. - Jane Austen

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

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday. - Ted Kooser

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

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

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has. - Taylor Swift

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. - C S Lewis

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

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

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

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

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

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

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! - Amanda Bradley

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

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

What sounds to you like a big load of trashy noise... is in fact... the brilliant music of a genius... myself. - Iggy Pop

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

Music is by far the most wonderful method we have to remind us each day of the power of personal accomplishment. - Chris S Salazar

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

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

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

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

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards

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