Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Music
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
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"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
