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