W. H. Auden on Music
Saturday, September 29th, 2007No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- W. H. Auden
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- W. H. Auden
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
- Maya Angelou
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
- Sidney Lanier
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
- Isaac Stern
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
- Bryan Ferry
You are the music while the music lasts.
- T. S. Eliot
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
- Robert Browning