Robert Peters wrote:

>There is this famous Nietzsche quotation: "Without music life would be
>a mistake / misunderstanding." (Ohne Musik ware das Leben ein Irrtum.)
>Does anyone know when and where he said this and what the context is?

*Goetzendaemmerung*, Sprueche und Pfeile, Paragraph No. 33:

               33.

   Wie wenig gehort zum Glucke! Der Ton eines Dudelsacks. - Ohne Musik
   ware das Leben ein Irrthum. Der Deutsche denkt sich selbst Gott
   liedersingend.

   (How little is needed for happiness!  The sound of a bagpipe
   [sic].--Without music, life would be a mistake.  The German who sings
   songs considers himself God.)

Walter Meyer