“An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses, and keep up an indolent attention to the audience.”
~ Joseph Addison

On Marian Anderson: “…a voice such as one hears once in a hundred years.”
~ Arturo Toscanini

“Music is that which cannot be said but upon which it is impossible to be silent”
~ Anonymous, attributed to Victor Hugo

“Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.”
~ Anonymous

“The flute is not an instrument with a good moral effect. It is too exciting.”
~ Aristotle

“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
~ W.H. Auden