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 forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
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"
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
-Tom Morello
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
