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- Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I hate music, especially when it's played.
- Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980)
- My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
- Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
- John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
- What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
- Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)
- Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
- Jack Handey (1949 - )
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