Bieber Backlash

England is a nation of shopkeepers. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. - Alistair Cooke

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

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

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

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

Making music should not be left to the professionals. - Michelle Shocked

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen. - August Rush

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. - Douglas Jerrold

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

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

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

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill

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

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

It is very difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you. - Unknown

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

Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

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

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

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

"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker

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

In bed, I'm totally impudent... (later) I got the feeling my prudence is coming back. - Archie Bunker

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

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown

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

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 taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it, except they keep coming back. - Will Rogers

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles. - John Wycliffe

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

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte