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
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.
-Giles Andreae
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
-Confucius
