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
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
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"
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
-Friedrich Richter
Music can change the world because it can change people.
-Bono
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
