‘Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
—William Shakespeare, 1604
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I
appreciate Beethoven.
—Jascha Heifetz, 1961
‘Rock’: music to hummer out fenders by.
—Edward Abbey, 1990
The worst wheel makes the most noise.
—European proverb
What looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain
old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
—Jerry Garcia
14
***
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
—Virgil, 37 BC
He who sings drives away the sorrow.
—Italian proverb
It is the best of all trades to make songs, and the second best is to sing them.
—Hilaire Belloc, 1909
Nowadays what isn’t worth saying is sung.
—Pierre Beaumarchais, 1775
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
—Ed Gardner
15
I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t
understand.
—Edward Appleton, 1955
14
Note that he was not some old curmudgeon, but one of rock music’s pillars.
15
From his Duffy’s Tavern radio program series (1941-1951).
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To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
—William Shakespeare, 1604
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I
appreciate Beethoven.
—Jascha Heifetz, 1961
‘Rock’: music to hummer out fenders by.
—Edward Abbey, 1990
The worst wheel makes the most noise.
—European proverb
What looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain
old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
—Jerry Garcia
14
***
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
—Virgil, 37 BC
He who sings drives away the sorrow.
—Italian proverb
It is the best of all trades to make songs, and the second best is to sing them.
—Hilaire Belloc, 1909
Nowadays what isn’t worth saying is sung.
—Pierre Beaumarchais, 1775
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
—Ed Gardner
15
I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t
understand.
—Edward Appleton, 1955
14
Note that he was not some old curmudgeon, but one of rock music’s pillars.
15
From his Duffy’s Tavern radio program series (1941-1951).
On Arts, Entertainment, and Internet
115