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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.  
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men ...  
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several mi...  
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whist...  
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves ...  
I didn't know he'd been knighted. I knew he'd been doctored.  
I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opini...  
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving plea...  
Most of them sound like they live on seaweed.  
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.  
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.  
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it ...  
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish...  
Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.