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
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
