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
Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.
-Modest Mouse
"Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News"
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Delius
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring its memory.
-Oliver Sacks
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
-Paulo Coelho
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
