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 everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
-Frank Zappa
"Real Frank Zappa Book"
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music
-Marcel Marceau
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
