“It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.” - Benny Goodman, The King of Swingreply to when he was asked as to why he had an integrated band”

“Life is like Piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black keys show sadness ...”

“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”

“I’d love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I’d tell him, “It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.”

“I know it doesn’t make noise,” he explained. “Going through the motions is comforting to me. I wish I had a real piano.” The wistfulness in his tone was aching to hear. “Did it used to have keys on it?” Livia asked.“I did draw them once, but it was in pencil. No matter. My heart knows right where they are.” He watched her as he tickled the pretend keys again.”

“he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life”