Music Quote by Pearl Cleage

“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

I do love the marriage of words and music. I do love them in terms of little snapshots. But, I guess I understand my…

— Luke Temple

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

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence ……

— T.S. Eliot

“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

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

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

— Anonymous