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 literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
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"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
