You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Quotations
Music
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
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"
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"
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
