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CLASSICAL
We are involved...
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily...
There is poetry...
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
Source: In The...
The highest purpose...
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of...
Ideas are one...
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
Source: In The Speaker's...
Beware of losing...
Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
Life is something...
Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything...
You can never...
You can never tell what's in a woman's mind,
And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o'...
In the South...
In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers' gangs, he would be asked if he...
Hard times that's...
Hard times that's all we hear 'round this way.
Odd dimes they're growing thinner each day.
Good times, Just...
Sometimes I feel...
Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away,
Somethin' throwed away.
And then I get my guitar, play...
A musicologist is...
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Source: Beecham...
Great music is...
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never...
Composers should write...
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Source:...
Music first and...
Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner...
The English may...
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
When I was...
When I was young, I kissed my first woman, and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time for...
Can't you read?...
Can't you read? The score demands con amore, and what are you doing? You are playing it like married...
God tells me...
God tells me how the music should sound, but you, stand in the way.
Source: To a...
If you want...
If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
After I die,...
After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you - not a one of you -...