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 what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
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"
