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 doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
