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
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
