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
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
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
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Good music always defeats bad luck.
-Jack Vance
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
