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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.

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I am the first to have made fifty years in Cameroonian music, and everyone is astonished

Anne-Marie Nzié

I would love to do music again. There’s nothing blocking me.

Kaakie

if our music can be marketed internationally, there will be more money for our country in terms of exchange rate.

Daddy Fresh

What you make as a designer is an expression of yourself. I love music and painting and I prefer life in the country.

Laura Ashley

What is produced today is mostly modest. Music has become tribal: fewer and fewer elements are used, and songs are monotonous.

Peppe Vessicchio

(A woman is not born for her own celebration;she is made to become the music of her husband and children.)

Lualhati Bautista

Music has been an escape for me. It’s where I live vicariously through the characters I create.

Bloody Civilian

To me, I will always make music with the person who can take the song to another level. That will never change.

Ladipoe

I have credible intelligence that you are competing with your children to dance to the music of Burna Boy. You better leave the youths with their gbese dance!

Augustine Akobundu

Times have changed. It is motivation that is vital for the movement and house music artists as a whole.

Dlala Thukzin

I’m a street boy, and the stories from the streets are numerous, and many of them are very similar. I tap into those stories to make my music.

Ayo Maff

The genre as a whole has had an impeccable change in the lives of many artists. It has created wealth for families in music that will be generational.

Daliwonga

To have started making music in Pretoria was cool because there weren’t any other producers to be influenced by. It really felt like I was doing something huge.

Markus Wormstorm

He does some Jazzy House music. There’s a song he did that’s like 20 minutes long.

Kelvin Momo

The intention really is not commercial but to introduce Botswana music to South Africa. If we impress the promoters it will benefit local music.

Banjo Mosele

Music is not just for amusement. It should be used for spiritual purposes and to educate.

Ali Farka Touré

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Letters and Social Aims (1876)

Music...is the vapour of art. It is to poetry what revery is to thought, what the fluid is to the liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

Victor Hugo William Shakespeare (1864)

...The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

Morton Feldman

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with each other...

Steve Reich ‎Paul Hillier (2002)

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