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
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
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
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
