| No good opera plot can be sensible:people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
| The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera. |
| Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. |
| If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. |
| Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker. |
| All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are all connected to a special programming service called Music That Nobody Really Likes, and you cannot get away from it. |
| It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. |
| Music is love in search of a word. |
| After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. |
| The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. |