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
Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you who you are.
-Tiffanie DeBartolo
"How to Kill a Rock Star"
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
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
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
