If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
