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 an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
