Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Quotations
Music
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
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"
