Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Quotations
Music
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
