famous quotes about music

When life gives you scraps, make something with them. ~Author Unknown



One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular. ~Helen Thomson



The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~Alfred Tennyson



In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Star Trek, "Wolf in the Fold," Mr. Spock



Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit - I look upon myself as an indoor gardener. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe



Your heart knows that you are better than this... ~Maurisa C, @therealrisirose



What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell



Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. ~George W. Russell



A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~Mitch Ratcliffe A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ~Mitch Ratcliffe



The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957



The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms



A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown



I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man. ~Romain Gary



From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. ~Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925



Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel



Death is a debt we all must pay. ~Euripides



Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water. ~The Women's Petition Against Coffee, 1674



Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. ~Hedrick Smith



The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler



California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. ~J.B. Priestley