No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when th

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. – W. H. Auden

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Music
category

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music. – Norah Jones

Category:
Music

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. – Robert Browning

Category:
Music

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music. – Eric Clapton

Category:
Music

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Music

Random Quotes

Faith is Hope with a holier name, hope that knows neither deceit nor death. Ah, how wisely do you speak of the philosophy of belief! It is, indeed, the telescope through which the stars grow large upon our gaze. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

Category:
Faith

Imagination is the true magic carpet. – Norman Vincent Peale

Category:
Imagination

May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

Category:
Reflection

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. – John Frusciante

Category:
Experience