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.
For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.
Music lets me forget bad experiences. You cannot keep ragas and regrets in your mind together.
The music industry as a whole just needs more women. There are a lot of men at the top of the ranks.
You talked me into the game of chance.
It was '39, before the music started…