Either or Quote by Pete Seeger

Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that…

— Boris Pasternak

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

— C.D. Wright

The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap." It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise,…

— Andrew Bird

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

— Aaron Copland

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of…

— George Eliot

If the melodies are strong, it's much easier to see which way I can take them sound-wise.

— Trentemøller

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not.

— M. Shadows

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

— Claude Debussy

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find…

— Pierre Schaeffer

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo…

— C. S. Lewis

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us,…

— Albert Camus