If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
