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
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
