Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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"
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
