Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
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.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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.
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Music is the perfect type of art.
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.