Mark Twain Quotes About Music

• All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Music, Truth

• Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Autobiography (published in 1924).

• A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Play, Gentleman

• We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Men, Virginia

  Mark Twain (1957). “Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864”

• I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Two, Adjectives

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

• I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Lying, Men

• We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Music, Feels

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.309, Courier Corporation

• Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Hypocrisy, Bully

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.293, Wordsworth Editions

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