Beethoven's Teacher

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

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

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

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

Puns are the highest form of literature. - Alfred Hitchcock

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

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. - G K Chesterton

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. - Anais Nin

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. - George William Curtis

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. - Joseph Addison

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

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

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 difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

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

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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