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 fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
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."
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
