Mark Twain Quotes about Music

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

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

Music, Play, Gentleman

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

Funny, Music, Truth

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”

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Mark Twain

Music, Witty, Humorous

Autobiography (published in 1924).

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