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
Quotations
Music
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 is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
