Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Quotations
Music
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
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, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
