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MUSIC HISTORY

 

 

Classical Music Quotes

 

“I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on records forever.”  --Sir Arthur Sullivan

 

 

 

 

“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.  You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.”  --Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.  If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.”  --Charlie Parker

 

“My music is best understood by children and animals.”  --Igor Stravinsky

 

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”  --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

“Keep your eyes on him; he’ll make the world talk of himself one day!”  --Mozart during a meeting with Beethoven, after hearing Beethoven’s improvisation on a theme from Le Nozze di Figaro

 

 

 

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