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 an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
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."
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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 a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
