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
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
The hungry and the haunted explode into rock 'n' roll bands.
-Bruce Springsteen
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.
-Marianne Faithfull
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
-Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks at Fifty"
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
