“Without music I should wish to die.” ShouldDiesWishMusicWithout MusicWish To Die Book:Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay Source: Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.” WritingEnoughWishMusicAlive Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.” WritingHumansWishPleasureWonderMusicMusicianSelfishBeastHeavenlyWagner Book:Letters Source: Letters
“I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.” EarthBeautifulWishMusicBeautiful Music Book:The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920 Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920