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 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
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
