If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
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
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
