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
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
