“There are American influences in my music but there is African culture behind it.”
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.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: — Do I wake or sleep?
And their music smote heaven and earth, and a terror struck all living things.
Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found.
He who makes songs without feeling
Spoils both his words and his music.
Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angels' music.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.