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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.

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My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

Lucy Lawless

Once the machine starts to fly, the heavens will be filled with music.

José Saramago Baltasar and Blimunda (1982)

It makes me very sad when I find out that people who never hear our music think that we are really about image and not about substance.

Amanda Palmer

I tend to write in patterned arrangement with rhymes.. I try to secure an effect of flowing continuity and the correspondence between verse and music.

Marianne Moore

This is a dream come true. I now own all my music, my videos, my photos, and my unreleased tracks.

Taylor Swift

Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.

Garrett Fort Dracula (1931)

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

Arthur Sullivan

Upbeat tunes make us want to dance around our kitchens and invite friends for dinner. But it's sad music that makes us want to touch the sky.

Susan Cain

Whether it's in relation to the sort of music that is played there or not, in any event, it's tragic for the families involved here.

Enda Kenny

To be without music was, for the ancient Greeks, to be already dead... Ancient Greece was a culture of song.

Thomas Cahill Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

We [at Apple] worry about the humanity being drained out of music, about it becoming a bits-and-bytes kind of world instead of the art and craft.

Tim Cook

One of the things I always miss, is the pub culture You know, the atmosphere, the music, the craic, all the things you won't find anywhere else.

Dolores O'Riordan

If you listen to a song on the radio you can definitely tell whose music it is. When you listen to my music you can tell it is Basshunter.

Basshunter

She shared, "When I started music, people didn’t understand it. Being a woman pursuing music as a profession was seen differently.

Butera Knowless

When I started music, people didn’t understand it. Being a woman pursuing music as a profession was seen differently.

Butera Knowless

There is a lot of proof now that music is worth it. What I can tell my fellow rising artistes is not giving up and stay positive.

Ariel Wayz

I deleted all my old music and I am rebranding myself. I don’t have to hypersexualize myself in order to be successful.

Princess Vitarah

Music is like the first rocket. When it detaches, it goes wherever it needs to go.

Rema

They ask me what my secret is. My secret is very simple: it consists in having the music performed, note by note, as the author wrote it.

Arturo Toscanini

Do you go to gym and exercise to music? Before Chubby Checker, that never happened.

Chubby Daniels

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