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 forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
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"
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
