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.
We were used to our own genre of music, Kwaito, which was 105 to 110.
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!
Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music.
The only thing black people can do for me is shine my shoes and buy my music.
I know nothing of music; I would not give a farthing for all the music in the universe.
Homer, whose name shall live in epic song,
While music numbers, or while verse has feet.
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.