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 the weapon in the war against unhappiness.
-Jason Mraz
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
