If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
