I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Quotations
Music
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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"
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
