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.
In fact the hardest part is trying to forget music when I'm not conducting it.
It is above all through landscape that music joins Romantic art and literature.
“All sound is music,” he had said, “and there is no place without sound.”
“It is still a minority of people who are interested in traditional music.”
Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.
Nothing is capable to being well set to music that is not nonsense.