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
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"
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
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."
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
