Oscar Wilde Quotes about Music

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

Music, Art, Creative

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1043, GENERAL PRESS

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

Oscar Wilde

Music, Art, Memories

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.88, Wordsworth Editions

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Oscar Wilde

Music, Art, Ideas

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Oscar Wilde

Music, Conversation, Duty

1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.

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

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Music, Love You

Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Music, Witty

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.257, Penguin

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.

Oscar Wilde

Music, Lying, Liars

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.218, Oxford University Press