I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the…

“If you're reading this book, there is probably an artist or band whose music you have an intense personal relationship with. I would also…

— Steven Hyden

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

— Paul Desmond

I would say that the evocative qualities of music are usually put there in post-production in the reverb. It's really not much about the…

— Stephin Merritt

Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them…

— Thomas Fuller

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

— Bo Burnham

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

— William Matthews

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of…

— James Whistler

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

— Rosanne Cash

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

— George Eliot

“Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?”

— Anonymous

I love to write music and poetry.

— Naturi Naughton

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy whenit departs too far from the dance; that poetry…

— Anonymous

“Music is the poetry of the air.”

— Anonymous

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward…

— Joan Larkin

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…

— Ezra Pound