Music, which if wise men let it never tires of humouring them.
Music Quotes
Shakespeare has the most entries, as usual, with Claude Debussy and Wordsworth well up the list. The best-sourced line is Nietzsche’s in Twilight of the Idols (1889), that without music life would be a mistake, and Emerson’s image of the silent organ chanting loudest (Poems, 1847) is the sort of thing that rewards a second read.
The three entries with flags are all ones people like to share. “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds” is credited to Mark Twain and flagged misattributed. “You grow with music, or the music outgrows you” is credited to John Lennon, and the note says no verifiable source has been found. The line about music being the best means we have of digesting time is credited to W. H. Auden and is flagged misattributed as well.
My wife, my child, my music, Nature and the sun; they are my happiness.
Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.