The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Quotations
Music
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"
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
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.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
