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.
Later when I am done with my Masters and I get the opportunity to work on my music I will.
The half of music, I have heard men say,
Is to have grieved; when comes the lonely wail
Over the mind.
Music wasn’t going to see me through retirement, so I decided to do something else.
Technology is the reason I get to work and do music at the same time.
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music.
The setting sun, and music at the close,
At the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last.
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?