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 forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
-Jimi Hendrix
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
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"
