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
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
