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Music

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boat" on his television show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood."

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky

"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Wheaton College Graduation, 1995

Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra

Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
-- Frank Zappa




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