If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
