Beethoven's Teacher

Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Anderson

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

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

Where words leave off, music begins. - Heinrich Heine

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

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

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. - Maurice Ravel

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

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

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

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

The antiques my wife buys at auctions are keeping me baroque. - Peter De Vries

If in the afterlife there is not music, we will have to import it. - Domenico Cieri Estrada

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

You can run out of garlic, but you can't really run out of music. - Jace Wayland

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

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

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

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

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

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

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

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. - Erik Satie

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. - H L Mencken

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. - Abraham Lincoln

Of puns it has been said that they who most dislike them are least able to utter them. - Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? - David Sarnoff

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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 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

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. - Simon Rattle

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

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