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 the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
