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 mean, I only use it for pictures. We write our music ourselves.
Amid the chaos and turmoil my family was experiencing, music was an anchor and provided an escape
I call [my music] ho-wop. It's the flavor of hip-hop, the flavor of doo-wop, and hoes.
[Music is] a language which we speak and understand but cannot translate
"Business is about to pick up here!" (usually said when someone music/pyro hits)