Oscar Wilde Quotes About Music

• 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 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

• 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.

• 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

• Music is the perfect type of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Art, Perfect

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.265, Oxford University Press

• 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

  Funny, Music, People

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.

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