John Ashbery Quotes

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

I've always been into writing love songs.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

I told Bernie Taupin that his best lyrics were for Song For Guy just because it doesn't have any words in it. But there you go... I'm a wind up! But a good Elton song for karaoke is I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues... "laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder under the covers..." Everyone can join in!

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.

Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?

Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.