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"
Quotations
Music
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
