Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
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"
