Ballerina Lessons

Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius

Music, my rampart and my only one. - Edna St Vincent Millay

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

Music is the strongest form of magic. - Marilyn Manson

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

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

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

Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. - James Bramston

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp

I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

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

Musician: Someone who makes a living by playing around - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music can change the world because it can change people. - Bono

Interval In Music: The distance from one piano to the next - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Classical music is music written by famous dead foreigners. - Arlene Heath

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

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

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

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein

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

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it. - Halford E Luccock

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

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

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

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. - Maria Augusta von Trapp

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

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

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. - Simon Cowell

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

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

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

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

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

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

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary. - Martin Luther

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

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

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

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato