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
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
-Maya Angelou
Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.
-Lindsey Kelk
"I Heart New York"
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-Jules Combarieu
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
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 expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-Victor Hugo
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"
