W. H. Auden Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Art, Philosophy

  Quoted in Robert Craft Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship (1972).

• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, Music, People

  Quoted in Time, 29 Dec 1961.

• The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Art, Thinking

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