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- I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
- S.J. Perelman
- I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
- Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
- 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)
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
- The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
- There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal
- The National, Paris, 1850
- My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
- Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- Philosophy is the highest music.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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