"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song."Louis Armstrong |
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Music
Musical Quotations
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." ~ Billy Wilder
"Without music, Life would be a mistake." ~ Nietzsche
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" ~ Aldous Huxley
"Music makes me cry, dance, laugh and desire sex to the exclusion of everything else" ~ Zadie Smith, Novelist
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it." ~ Noel Coward
"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away." ~ Sir Thomas Beecham
"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." ~ George Clemenceau
"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else." ~ Lily Tomlin
"Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first." ~ Josh Billings
What's YOUR favourite quotation?
Do you know any misquotations?
Do you have a correction?
contributions :
please send the words, who said them - with as much detail as you can; why it was said (or not said), when, to whom ... whatever you can. I always acknowledge any help.
plans:
Once the number of quotations justifies it, I shall install a search function, for name, topic or phrase, and I'm interested in any other suggestions.
Contributions to Quotations:
David Shein [06], Clark Moran, Geoffrey K. Braden [05]