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Richard M. Nixon

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

by Richard M. Nixon (President, American , born in 1913) keywords: beautiful, black, make, music, must, notes, play, together, want , white

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

by Jean Paul (Author, German , born in 1763) keywords: gloomy, life, moonlight, music , night

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

by Plato (Philosopher , Greek) keywords: charm, everything, flight, gaiety, gives, imagination, law, life, mind, moral, music, soul, universe , wings

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

by Plato (Philosopher , Greek) keywords: education, movement, music, reach, soul, sound , virtue

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

by Elvis Presley (Musician, American , born in 1935) keywords: anything, know, line , music

Esa-Pekka Salonen

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

by Esa-Pekka Salonen (Musician, Finnish , born in 1958) keywords: experience, modern, performance , piece

William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

by William Shakespeare (Dramatist, English , born in 1970) keywords: food, love, music , play

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

by George Bernard Shaw (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1856) keywords: amateurs, full, hell , musical

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

by Elliott Smith (Musician, American , born in 1969) keywords: acoustic, guitar, guy, play , sensitive

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

by Isaac Stern (Musician, Russian , born in 1920) keywords: carnegie, enhances, everywhere, exception, hall, music , world

Billy Strayhorn

All music is beautiful.

by Billy Strayhorn (Composer, American , born in 1915) keywords: beautiful , music

Arthur Sullivan

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

by Arthur Sullivan (Composer, British , born in 1970) keywords: experiments, music, record, results , wonderful

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

by Michael Tippett (Composer, English , born in 1905) keywords: audience, music, needs , performance

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

by Leo Tolstoy (Novelist, Russian , born in 1828) keywords: emotion, music , shorthand

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

by Lao Tzu (Philosopher) keywords: heard, music, soul , universe

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

by Pia Zadora (Actor, American , born in 1953) keywords: opening , sing

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

by Frank Zappa (Musician, American , born in 1940) keywords: air, into, music, performance, sculpted, sculpture, something , type

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

by Frank Zappa (Musician, American , born in 1940) keywords: another, anything, could, else, love, make, more, something, songs , than

I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

by John Zorn (Composer, American , born in 1953) keywords: act, control, cues, group , musicians

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