If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Quotations
Music
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
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 in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
