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, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
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
