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.
I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
"The Human League, Someday all music will be made like this!" — and it is!
Formalism is music that people don’t understand at first hearing.
The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.
Part of page 11 from the original music manuscript of the sonata.
The word "hillbilly", I've never liked that, and I've never used that in my music.
Here lies Evgeny Kissin, son of the Jewish people, a servant of music.