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
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
