I’m convinced that science is as deep a human instinctive activity as art or storytelling or music.
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.
The purest way to communicate the human condition is through the beauty of music.
Music is like this portal into another world – the world of truth.
I used my failed football aspiration to power my way into music.
A great longing for that happy, waltzing, music-box time came over him.
Everybody has a reason behind their action and I do music because I am good at it.
The value of what Afrobeat is, which is conscious music, can inspire people to bring change.
Music comes from a place we don't know, it sort of comes through the fingers and toes.
He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.