If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
