Quotations About / On: MUSIC

  • 41.
    A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
    (Ian Anderson (b. 1947), British rock musician. Rolling Stone (New York, Nov. 30, 1989).)
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  • 42.
    Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 43.
    The music in my heart I bore,
    Long after it was heard no more.
    (William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. The Solitary Reaper (l. 31-32). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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  • 44.
    What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
    (Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. (Written 1916). "Let Us Be Easily Careful," Painted Lace, Yale University Press (1955).)
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  • 45.
    Music has charms to soothe a savage breast,
    To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
    (William Congreve (1670-1729), British dramatist. Almeria, in The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc. 1 (1697). Opening lines of play.)
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  • 46.
    Let these memorials of built stone music's
    enduring instrument, of many centuries of
    patient cultivation of the earth, of English
    verse ...
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Defense of the Islands.")
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  • 47.
    Is there not
    An art, a music, and a stream of words
    That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
    (William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Home at Grasmere, l. 620-2 (written 1800, published as The Recluse 1888).)
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  • 48.
    The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
    (Harold Clurman (1901-1980), U.S. stage director, critic. quoted in Robert Brustein, "The Vitality of Harold Clurman," pt. 1, Who Needs Theatre (1987).)
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  • 49.
    Not to sink under being man and wife,
    But get some color and music out of life?
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Investment.")
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  • 50.
    Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at "hateful ragtime" no longer passes for musical culture.
    (Scott Joplin (1868-1917), U.S. pianist, composer. The School of Ragtime, preface (1908).)
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