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
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out... It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part.
-Nick Hornby
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.
-John Borrowman
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
-Lao Tzu
