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
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
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
