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.
We've had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is "stolen".
Past a certain point, the music is no longer mine. It's yours.
We live in a world of disposable music, fast food music... Music is not fireworks, music is feeling.
Music has long been used as a tool of expression, which benefits both the artist and the listeners.
Music is the only medium, the only form of art that is invited to play in cathedrals.
I have the freedom to dance to the music I hear, regardless of whether people can hear it too.
I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.
Everyman is full of music, but it is not everyman that knows how to bring it out.