If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
