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 acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
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"
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
