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.
"God's time is the best. Yes, more music will be coming soon. I'll be doing both music and acting,"
CAROL: You don’t care for the music?
JACQUE: Music! It’s just a gimmick to sell lutes and flutes.
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
[..but he had] a record with the music of the dwarfes on it, and quite often play it.
We thought about the movie as a global piece of work, not picture, then voices, then music.
""Music has brought me lots and lots of joy. For me, it's a feeling""
Next to Mozart, other kinds of music are not music at all.
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Because I come from the same era, I will argue that music before is better than music right now
I’m the youngest of six kids and I grew up with a lot of noise, a lot of music and a lot of laughter