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"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse
sing a song."
Louis Armstrong
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| "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
~ Billy Wilder |
| "Without music, Life would be a mistake." ~
Nietzsche |
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing
the inexpressible is music" ~ Aldous Huxley
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"Music makes me cry, dance, laugh and desire sex to
the exclusion of everything else" ~ Zadie Smith, Novelist
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"Our raison d'être is to perform in English"
~Spokesperson, English National Opera
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"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors
and several miles away." ~ Sir Thomas Beecham
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"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
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"Military justice is to justice what military music
is to music." ~ George Clemenceau
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"I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be
thinking up something else." ~ Lily Tomlin
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"Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but
I'd try a revolver first." ~ Josh Billings
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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]
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