Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
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"
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
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
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett