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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry. — Henry Purcell

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. — Marianne Wiggins

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words. — Mark Heard

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. — Kate Smith

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars
glued together with magic and music and words. — Anita Krishan

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

Words are not only meaning but music and magic and power. — Frederick Buechner

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. — E.L. Doctorow

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling? — Sara Bareilles

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving — Jane Hirshfield

I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. — E.L. Doctorow

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit. — Hildegard Of Bingen

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. — Alasdair Gray

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent — Victor Hugo

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs. — Brenda Lee

You would not believe how many words there are for 'home' and what savage music there can be wrung from it. — Edna O'Brien

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first. — Adam Duritz

Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it. — Steven Tyler

Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better. — The Beatles

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music. — Chuck D

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after. — Matt Berninger

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,

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. — E.L. Doctorow

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right. — Stevie Wonder

The songs started as a soundscapes, and then came the words and music; each song took at least a year to make. — Justin Vernon

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music. — Mark Twain

You are giving me words to write a song and that's even better than butterflies. — Noone

Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give. — Aubertine Woodward Moore

Writing a poem is making music with words and space. — Arnold Adoff

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. — James Joyce

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words. — Bono

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilerated speechlessness. — Yann Martel

Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music. — Tom Odell

And I know
The scariest part is letting go
Cause love is a ghost you can't control — Christina Perri

When I dance, it's incredible. I can't describe it, there's no words. You just tap into your mojo and you just go. — Johnny Borrell

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power. — Chuck Palahniuk

Music was known and understood before words were spoken. — Charles Darwin

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot. — Jane Chen

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music. — Charles De Lint

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music. — Roald Dahl

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it. — Young Jeezy

And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night. — Bradley Nowell

Music" - he smiled his glorious smile and raised his index finger - "music speaks for the soul because words are too small. — Dennis Lehane

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

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about. — Lydia Lunch

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. — Bill Haley

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. — Montserrat Caballe

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around. — Natalia Tena

I did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear. — India Edghill

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.' — Stan Freberg

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. — Captain Beefheart

When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings
are the only form of art which will remain to reign. — Soar

Live a life like a beautiful song, touch every heart with loving words and memorable music. — Debasish Mridha

Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul. — Banani Ray

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage. — Dan Bejar

Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance. — Court Young

Music carries words over miles and into hearts and memories. — Patrick Rothfuss

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do. — Dave Matthews

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people. — Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places. — Marc Almond

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words. — Jayne Anne Phillips

It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it. — Toby Lightman

Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. — Pierce Brown

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere. — Judy Collins

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. — Robert G. Ingersoll

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music. — Lionel Richie

Happy soul;begin and end your day with music. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. — Eddie Izzard

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. — Morrissey

Music enables an ability of divine expression transcending any words. — Temi Peters

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. — Harry Partch

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

You know, you don't see with your eyes
You see with your brain
And the more words your brain has
The more things you can see — KRS-One

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. — Terry Brooks

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held together by the quiet gathering of words. — Markus Zusak

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written. — Jimi Hendrix

Words and music together create powerful, powerful things. — Craig Finn

Literature is the heart and the soul of a society. Like music it's the words expressing multitude of emotions, self riposte and gripping thoughts. — Shilpa Sandesh

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. — Franz Liszt

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. — Bryan Ferry

Symphony starts when you walk together, feel the heart beats and understand the unspoken words. — Amit Ray

Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music. — Jim Butcher

Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the body before the mind. — Rebecca Solnit

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. — Keith Richards

Music is undescribable, and no words can be said to understand it. The only way to understand it is to hear it. — Allyson McClain

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music. — Yoko Ono

It is called the First Amendment ... Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music. — Jack Valenti

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty. — Julian Barnes

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. — Marcel Marceau

Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love. — Debasish Mridha

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words. — Utada Hikaru

Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. — Shane Koyczan

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? — George Edward Woodberry