Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Quotations
Music
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
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
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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"
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
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"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
