Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
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"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
