H. L. Mencken Quotes About Music
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.
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The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
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Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah
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The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
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The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.
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Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.
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