Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
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"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
