musical quotes

Happy is the country which has no history, and happier still is that musical comedyabout which one can find nothing to say.

-James Agate
  In the Sunday Times.

Which is more musical, a truck passing bya factory or a truck passing by a music school?

-John Cage
Silence.

Hell isfull of musical amateurs: music isthebrandyofthe damned.

- George Bernard Shaw
  DonJuan to the Devil. Man and Superman, act 3.

The fact is, there are no rules and there never were any rules, and there never will be any rules of musical composition except rules of thumb; and thumbs vary in length, like ears.

- George Bernard Shaw
Music in London,1890^1894.