concert quotes

There are no lapsed Catholics after a Christmas concert by Pavarotti.

-Tim(othy) Burke
  In The Montreal Gazette, 8 Dec.

The concert is dead.

- Glenn Gould
Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz Master Minds (1969).

La politique au milieu des inte  re"  ts d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert. Politics mixed with the imagination is like a shot fired in the middle of a concert.

-Stendhal pseudonym of  Henri Beyle
  Le Rouge et le noir, bk.2, ch.22.