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 cannot imagine a world without music. It would be . . . well, I cannot imagine it.
The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
And I do this all in time to the music
That dance like fools set on fire
I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.
“In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.”