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 indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.
They call me "Snorah", but Jesus, that slow music touches people!
It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.
The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
I got rhythm,
I got music,
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?
Give me the laundress' bill and I will set to music even that.
The band played marching from deck to deck, and as the ship went under I could still hear the music.