Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Quotations
Music
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
