Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
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"
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
