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.
We want people to experience God in a deeper way while celebrating the gift of gospel music.
Our music is both medicine and food, as mbira has the power to heal and to provide for people.
Instrumentation is to music precisely what color is to painting.
Accordions are the octonions of the music world — tragically misunderstood.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.
Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.