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
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
-Sarah Dessen
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
