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 like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other
-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
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music defines us, for it shapes our souls and minds.
-Jessica Carroll
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
