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
Quotations
Music
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
