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"
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
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"
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
