pianos quotes

  • Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

    -W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
      'Stop all the clocks', Collected Poems. Featured in the1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

  • I wish the Government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. 794

    - Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
    Collected in Letters,1916^1964 (1970).

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