Music Quote by Benjamin Clementine

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

— Benjamin Clementine

I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that…

— Kevin Young

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass…

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

— Adrian Mitchell

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art,…

— Nicholas Trandahl

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're…

— Michael Gira

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people.…

— Patti Smith

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