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 what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
