Galewitz - Music: A Book of Quotations

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Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral and religious feelings. JOSEPH ADDISON The music teacher came twice each week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin. GEORGE ADE When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as if the strings are still back in the cat. FRED ALLEN The lady came home from the opera and yet quarreled with her maid. PETER ALTENBERG On opera: Like a husband with a foreign title; expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge. CLEVELAND AMORY Definition of a true musician: One who, when he hears a lady singing in the bathtub, he puts his ear to the keyhole.

MOREY AMSTERDAM Where words fail, music speaks. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
And so she makes music wherever she goes. ANONYMOUS (nursery rhyme) Jazz is not a craze... its significance is that it is one of the greatest landmarks of modern art. GEORGE ANTHIEL Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. JOHN ARMSTRONG All music is folk music.

I aint never heard a horse sing a song. When you got to ask what [jazz] is, youll never get to know. Every time I close my eyes blowing my trumpet, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. LOUIS ARMSTRONG No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H.

AUDEN Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. BERTHOLD AUERBACH The sole end and aim of all music should be nothing else but Gods glory and pleasant recreation. Its easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time, and the instrument will play itself. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Rugged the breast that music cannot tame. JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE Competitions are for horses, not artists. BLA BARTK I love Wagner; but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung by its tail outside a window, and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Is there a heart that music cannot melt? JAMES BEATTIE There are two golden rules for an orchestra... start together and finish together. The public doesnt give a damn what goes on in between. That which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty. If an opera cannot be played by an organ-grinderas Puccinis and Verdis melodies were playedthen that opera is not going to achieve immortality. I would give the whole of Bachs Brandenburg Concertos for Massenets Manon and would think I had justly profited by the exchange.

SIR THOMAS BEECHAM Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it. To me God Bless America was not just a song but an expression of my feeling toward the country to which I owe what I have and what I am. On Theres No Business Like Show Business: I wrote it as a so-called throwaway to cover a stage wait. No one visualized what the song would eventually become, especially myself.