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.
In 2002, if you asked me to make a wish? I simply would've wished that my music would be a hit.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
He could have gone over that night and faced the music but how much music is a man supposed to face?
I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music.