If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
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 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, 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
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
