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
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know.
-Edgar Cayce
Music acts like a magic key to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
-Maria Von Trapp
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
-Sergei Rachmaninov
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
-Luanne Rice
"Summer of Roses"
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
