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 evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
