Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
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 you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
