Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil (1886), pt. IV, sec. 245
Music quotes from composers, poets and players, from Shakespeare and Mozart to Louis Armstrong and Einstein, each checked to its source.
Friedrich Nietzsche · Beyond Good and Evil (1886), pt. IV, sec. 245
Charlie Parker · Quoted in Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1786–1830), bk. II, ch. 11
William Shakespeare · Romeo and Juliet (1595–1596), II, ii
William Shakespeare · King Richard II (1595), V, v
William Shakespeare · As You Like It (1599–1600), II, v
Frank Sinatra · Closing line at live performances
Albert Einstein · His reply to a questionnaire on Bach for Reclams Universum, 1928.
William Shakespeare · Cymbeline (1609–1610), Sonnet 8
William Shakespeare · A Midsummer-Night’s Dream (1595–1596), IV, i
Attributed to Arturo Toscanini · On Richard Strauss agreeing to write music for the 1936 Olympics
Louis Armstrong · Reply when asked what jazz is
Antonín Dvořák · The source reads: “I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called the Negro melodies…. In the Negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.” · New York Herald (May 21, 1893), The Real Value of Negro Melodies
Plutarch · Lives, Demetrius, sec. 1
William Shakespeare · Twelfth-Night (1601–1602), III, i
William Wordsworth · The Solitary Reaper (1807), st. 4
George Meredith · The Thrush in February (1888), st. 17
William Congreve · The Mourning Bride (1697), act I, sc. i
The Bible · Ecclesiasticus 22:6
Thelonious Monk · Interview, Down Beat (October 28, 1971)
Attributed to Fats Waller · Of Art Tatum
Irving Berlin
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