Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music,...
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music,...
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music,...
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music,...
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John Ruskin once said that music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose. He suggested that the art of poetry depends on the relationship between the musician and the audience or reader. Poetry is not written or sung to be read or heard by one person alone. Poetry depends on this relationship to have meaning.

If you are alone, all you will hear are sounds. The music is there for you to enjoy because it makes you feel something. If you do not feel anything listening to a song, then that song has little worth to you.

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