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
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
