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"
Quotations
Music
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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"
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
