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
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
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 is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
