8 Quotes by Edgar Wilson Nye

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

They tell me Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.