Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Quotations
Music
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
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.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
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
