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- Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.
- Mouth organist Larry Adler
- Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
- In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.
- Unknown
- The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. Galento, may he r3est in peace. Giardello, LaMotta, Carmen Basilio. What a sweetheart Basilio is. They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!
- Willie Pastrano
- There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- Muhammad Ali on the occasion of one of his retirements
- If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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