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
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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 is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
