Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
Quotations
Music
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
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
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."
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
