A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Quotations
Music
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
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
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
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"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
