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 evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
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"
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
