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.
It was hard, because the people’s music can never be killed.
As musicians, if we are to fight, let us have battles on stage through our music.
If I can, with my music, encourage others to take action, that's already a victory.
I am working on other things in my music career but I am not saying it out at the moment.
We view dancing as a form of worship and we teach through the medium of music.
My pastor was prophesying and he called me and told me that my calling was to do secular music.
I’ve gotten several messages asking why I stopped making music.
I regard South Africa as the Hollywood of the continent when it comes to music.