If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
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
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
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"
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
