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
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"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
