Unattributed on music

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (1601), Act I, scene i.In context

• Love

Music makes one feel so romantic⁠—at least it always gets on one’s nerves⁠—which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900

• Love

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.33