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 only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Any good music must be an innovation
-Les Baxter
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
One good thing about music is, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-Bob Marley
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
