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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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