Beethoven's Teacher

Music is my higher power. - Oliver James

A pun is the lowest form of wit. - John Dennis

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

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr

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

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

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

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. - Robert Browning

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

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

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

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

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

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe and exhaled in a pun. - Charles Lamb

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Company

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

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. - Dierks Bentley

If you want to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

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

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. - Joseph Addison

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. - Oscar Levant

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

If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. - Anna Akhmatova

It is simply my life, music. I live it, breathe it, talk with it. I am almost unconscious of it. - Arthur Rubinstein

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

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart. - Paul McCartney

He is a rarity which I cannot but be fond of, as one would be of a hog that could fiddle, or a singing owl. - John W. Rochester

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

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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