Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Quotations
Music
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
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
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"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
-Robert Fripp
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
