Music as literature

Can we consider music to be literature? I've been asked that question lately and I honestly do think that music is like literature especially how music is composed  it is like creating a poem.  I also think that making music is like a poem in a sense it takes a lot of thought to create music. Literature is defined as a collective work of culture that is also a imaginative creating writing especially of recongnized artistic value. The difference between a novel ,a poem, a rap , an opera and symphony is that in literature you use your creativity that allows you the ability to bring something that no one has ever read.