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.
A lot of music from some of our female artists is about relationships and can be a little whiny
I enjoy traditional music, but it’s difficult for me to be a part of it.
I am using music as a stepping stone to achieve the many other goals I have.
"African pianism is the point where Western classical music and African indigenous music converge."
Gospel music in Zimbabwe has taken centre stage for a long time and it’s never going to recede.
My music is just trying to be as honest as I can about accountability.
Her voice changed like a bird's:
There grew more of the music, and less of the words.
Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination.
This were surely a gain, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.