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 acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
