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
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"
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
