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 does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
A good country song takes a page out of someone's life and puts it into music.
-Conway Twitty
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
I hate happy music that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.
-Ville Valo
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
