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
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
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
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
