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 only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
