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 just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
Music does so many good things for so many different people all over the world.
The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic … in terms of music history.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?
Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.
Do I let my children listen to my music?' Of course I do. Shoot, the worst curse is a lie.