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“Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.”
“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.”
“A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.”
“Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”
“An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.”
“Mozart is sunshine.”
“Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.”
“Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.”
“Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better.”
“Mozart's music gives us permission to live.”
“Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends ther...”
“Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon between spirit and matter.”
“Canned music is like audible wallpaper.”
“Don't play what's there play what's not there.”
“From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.”
“Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.”
“God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.”
“Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.”
“He was dying all his life.”
“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.”
