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Fiddle: An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

Ambrose Bierce

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

He hasn't just lost the plot, he's lost the whole library!

Music newspaper Melody Maker

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong.

Simon Rattle

(1955 – ) English conductor

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Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

George Carlin

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

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After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?

Richard Wagner

(1813 – 1883) German composer, conductor, theatre director & essayist

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If he’d been making shell cases during the war it might have been better for music.

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns

(1835 – 1921) French Late-Romantic composer, conductor & pianist

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The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

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What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?

Denis Norden

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

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Jack Benny's ability on the violin was legendary; everybody knew he had none.

George Burns

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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If it wasn't for white people, who would play lead guitar?

Marsha Warfield

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian

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Fortissimo at last!

Gustav Mahler

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer

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The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Eugene Ormandy

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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Generally, he had a good ear; he didn't know the notes that well, but he played in their general vicinity.

Joan Benny

(1934 – ) daughter of Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone

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On a golf course, Jack had the hands of a violinist; that was fair, because as a violinist, Jack had the hands of a golfer.