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
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death!
-Joss Stirling
"Finding Sky"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
