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 not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
