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 one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
