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
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
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"
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
