As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of…

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

— Henry Purcell

. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

— Shannon Hale

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…

— Vic Fuentes

Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but…

— John Dryden

“Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture,…

— Milan Kundera

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

— Dave Matthews

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was…

— Lydia Lunch

I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path.

— Jade Bird

Well-written words are music.

— William Shatner

“What he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, over-powering,…

— Milan Kundera

“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand…

— Sun Ra

“I need the words to find the music!”

— Pearl Cleage

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

— Willemijn Verkaik

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.”

— Ernest Hemingway