Quotes About Music

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra.

One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.

Listen to the song of your heart, now follow the melody.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

Music is poetry with personality.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.