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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Comedy
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams1911–1983The Glass Menagerie (1944)
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Personal Recollections (1981), p. 96
- Technology
People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them — that does not occur to them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 36e
- Art
- Poetry
Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Personal Talk, Stanza 2
I listen’d till I had my fill:
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth1770–1850The Solitary Reaper (1807)In context
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Among School Children (1927)In context
- Art
- Dancing
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
Frank Zappa1940–1993Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
- Comedy
Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.
Frank Zappa1940–1993Oui interview (1979)