Quotes About Music

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.