Oscar Wilde
Spoken by Lady Henry
I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter 4
Themes: audience, humour, wit | Art form: Opera
More quotes by Oscar Wilde
- From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician.
- I never talk during music – at least, during good music. If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it in conversation.
- Music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.
- Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather another chaos, that it created in us.
- You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.