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
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
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
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
