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 an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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 is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
