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 not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
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
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
