Form Quote by Richard Wagner

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

— Shankar Mahadevan

For me, music is pure abstraction.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

— Confucius

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

— Leo Ornstein

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

— Pearl S. Buck

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form.…

— Claude Debussy

Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.

— Lee “Scratch” Perry

I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It…

— Sabrina Carpenter

Melody is the essence of music.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music itself is just music.

— MC Hammer

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

— Igor Stravinsky