Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make.
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.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings.
If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will be because it is good.
I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to.
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
"Well, anyway, I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the War."
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds, or the written music of water written in river-lines?
The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.