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 expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
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"
