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 the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
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"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
