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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Virgil Thomson (1896 - 1989)

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1

When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Any good music must be an innovation.