Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Edgar Allan PoePoet · American · 1809 – 1849
More from Edgar Allan Poe
Music QuotesWriting Quotes
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. — Gustav Mahler
  • I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs. — Mike Lowry
  • That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. — Edgar Allan Poe
  • All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
  • Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. — Edgar Allan Poe
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026