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“The golden mean, the truth, is no longer recognized or valued. To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it, or so incomprehensible that it pleases simply because no sensible man can comprehend it. in a letter to his father, 1782”
“My fatherland has always the first claim on me. Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 November 1781), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906).”
“…passions, violent or not, must never be expressed to the point of disgust, and Music must never offend the ear, even in most horrendous situations, but must always be pleasing, in other words always remain Music… Letter to Leopold Mozart, (Vienna, 26 September 1781), from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling [W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 0”
“As I love Mannheim , Mannheim loves me. Letter to Leopold Mozart, (Mannheim, 12 November 1778), from Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected Letters, ed. Robert Spaethling [W.W. Norton, 2000, ISBN 0”
“A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed if he always remains in the same place. Letter to Leopold Mozart (11 September 1778), from Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by Georg Knepler (1991), trans. J. Bradford Robinson [Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0”
“I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know”
“The most stimulating and encouraging thought is that you, dearest father, and my dear sister, are well, that I am an honest German, and that if I am not always permitted to talk I can think what I please; but that is all. Letter to Leopold Mozart (Paris, 29 April 1778), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel”
“Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906) [1]”
“Sie wird das nothwendigste und härteste und die hauptsache in der Musique niemahlen bekommen, nämlich das tempo, weil sie sich vom jugend auf völlig befliessen hat, nicht auf den tact zu spiellen.”
“I write as a sow pisses. Letter to his sister ( Milan , 26 January 1770), from Contradictory Quotations , Longman Group Ltd., 1983. Rendered as "as the sows piss" in Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , trans. Hans Mersmann, Dover Publications, 1972”
“I started to sing like myself”
“The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done. Los Angeles Times”
“Music has been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal. As quoted "Words of the Week" in Jet magazine, Vol. 64, No. 6 (25 April 1983), p. 40”
“Rhythm and blues used to be called race music . … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. Pop Chronicles : Show 55”
“A symposium on soul”
“Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you”
“Yeah yeah, what'd I say, all right Well, tell me what'd I say, yeah Tell me what'd I say right now Tell me what'd I say "What'd I Say", from the album What'd I Say”
“Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong, Come and love your daddy all night long. All right now, hey hey, all right. See the girl with the diamond ring; She knows how to shake that thing. All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey. Tell your mama, tell your pa, I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas. Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right. " What'd I Say ", from the album What'd I Say”
“I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah! " I Got a Woman ", written with Renald Richard”
“You gotta know how to get to people's heart Pop Chronicles : Show 15”
“This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.”
“What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.”
“Picket lines, school boycotts/They try to say it's a communist plot/All I want is equality /For my sister, my brother, my people, and me Mississippi Goddam 1964”
“Hound dogs on my trail/School children sitting in jail/Black cat cross my path/I think every day's gonna be my last/Don't tell me, I'll tell you/Me and my people just about due/I've been there so I know/They keep on saying "Go slow!" Mississippi Goddam 1964”
“I wish I could share all the love that's in my heart/Remove all the bars that keep us apart/I wish you could know what it means to be me/Then you'd see and agree/That everyone should be free/But, oh, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good/Oh, Lord, please, don't let me be misunderstood I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1967”
“Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky/How sweet it would be/If I found I could fly/I'd soar to the sun/And look down at the sea/And I sing 'cause I know/How it feels to be free I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free 1967”
“the world is big/Big and bright and round/And it's full of folks like me/Who are black, yellow, beige and brown Backlash Blues 1967”
“Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash/Just who do you think I am?/You raise my taxes, freeze my wages/And send my son to Vietnam /You give me second class houses/And second class schools/Do you think that all colored folks/Are just second class fools? Nina Simone , Backlash Blues 1967”
“When the poets rhyme in the summertime/You'll hear melodies in the words Nina Simone , Music for Lovers 1978”
“We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx , Lenin and revolution”
“I love Pops , I love the way he sings, the way he plays”
“Mastersounds Heard Again in New Album; Miles Davis At the Blackhawk”
“On Louis Armstrong in a Playboy magazine interview.”
“You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played.”
“The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them. About the new modal style. Interviewed by The Jazz Review (1958); Quotes in Paul Maher, Michael K. Dorr (2009) Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis, p. 18.”
“Quoted in: Jazz Journal International, (1983), p. 12.”
“Is that what you wanted, Alfred? Miles Davis asking Blue Note producer Alfred Lion 's approval of a recorded performance in Rudy Van Gelder 's studio. Miles' was included at the end of "One For Daddy”
“columns, c. 1957, in response to”
“Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet”
“I’ll play it and tell you what it is later. In Szwed, John (2012).  So What: The Life of Miles Davis . Random House. ISBN 9781448106462 . , and in many other books Sometimes rendered as: I'll play it ' first and tell you what it is later.”
“I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black. 9 July 2002 remarks at National Action Network headquarters”
“The record companies really do conspire against the artists. They steal. They cheat. They do whatever they can, especially the black artists.… Sony's Tommy Mottola is the president of the record division. He is mean. He is a racist, and he's very, very, very devilish. 6 July 2002 remarks at National Action Network headquarters”
“I have begun to see that even my father's harshness was a kind of love. An imperfect love, to be sure, but love nonetheless. He pushed me because he loved me, because he wanted no man to ever look down at his offspring. Now with time, rather than bitterness I feel blessing.… My initial fury has slowly given way to forgiveness. "Heal the Kids" speech at the Oxford Union”
“I have no problem with them imitating [me]. It's a compliment. Everybody has to start out looking up to someone. For me it was James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Wilson, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly. On pop groups like N'Sync , as quoted in interview in TV Guide”
“. Walters : How do you feel when people call you... Jackson : Yeah,”
“Do not judge a person, Do not pass a judgement on anyone unless you've talked to them one”
“Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson”
“I feel fortunate for being that instrument through which music flows. I'm just the source through which it comes. I can't take credit for it because it's God's work. He's just using me as the messenger. May 1992 Ebony/Jet interview with Robert E. Johnson”
“I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight,”
“Michael Jackson”
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? Letter to Bettina von Arnim”
“Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life. Attributed to Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (28 May 1810); Goethe's Correspondence with a Child”
“Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal , Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.”
“As reported by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe , 28 May 1810.”
“Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie. [1] Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
“Nur das Reine im Herzen kann eine gute Suppe machen. Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.”
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. Conversations”
“...thus do I take my farewell of thee”
“There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art”
“I want to seize fate by the throat. Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.”
“When you're sick [due to drug withdrawal], music is a great help. Once in Texas, I kicked a [heroin] habit on weed, a pint of paregoric, and a few Louis Armstrong records. William S. Burroughs , Junky (1953), Chapter 12”
“When Louis Armstrong, according to a few of his biographies, came to Chicago he was wearing a suit, the pants of which were about three inches too short, his white socks showed, he had these brogans on and he wore a derby hat. He got up on the stage and all the musicians laughed until he started to play. When he finished playing, the next day all the musicians went out and bought some pants three inches too short, some white socks and some brogan shoes and a derby hat, you understand. Louis Armstrong was on J”
“True revolution in music took place, as far as I can see it, took place only a few times, three times in this century. One was the revolution that took place aided and abetted if not instigated by Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong did something with the trumpet that had never been done. Things that have become so casual, so common to our ears now, Louis Armstrong introduced. Maya Angelou , 1977 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou”
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”
“Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.”
“If you still have to ask, shame on you Armstrong's response to the question what jazz is, cited by Max Jones et. al. : "Salute to Satchmo", I.P.C. Specialist & Professional Press Ltd 1970, page 25”
“Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is. Ebony magazine , November 1964”
“The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell . As quoted in The New York Times (19 September 1967)]”
“Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world '? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either.”
“The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn. Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans”
“Our society is run by insane people”
“We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft. Quoted by Hunter Davies in The Beatles”
“I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together I Am the Walrus ,”
“Very rich. Asked how he felt about a Beatles' Shea Stadium concert not selling out; Pop Chronicles : Show 38”
“I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti”
“Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now ; I don't know which will go first”
“One cave she wolf go too farther, and I wolf leaf her”
“It was a load of rubbish. It was like meeting Engelbert Humperdinck . Later comments on meeting Elvis , as quoted in The Beatles: The Biography (2005) by Bob Spitz, p. 583.”
“There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis . If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles. Statement (28 August 1965) after meeting Elvis Presley , as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2005) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 386; also partly quoted in The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968) by Hunter Davies, p. 19”
“The remark provoked warm laughter and applause, and was greeted with profound relief by Beatles manager Brian Epstein , who had feared Lennon would make good on his pre”
“Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion,”
“Bach is the immortal God of Harmony. Ludwig van Beethoven”
“Not brook, but ocean should be his name (Bach is the German word for brook.) Ludwig van Beethoven”
“Toccata and Fugue in D minor”
“Annotation in a copy of the Calov Bible , cited from John Butt (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 256; translation from ibid. , p. 46”
“Bei einer andächtigen Musik ist allezeit Gott mit seiner Gnaden Gegenwart. Where there is devotional music, God with his grace is always present.”
“Quoted in Ludwig Prautzsch Bibel und Symbol in den Werken Bachs , p. 7 [1] ; translation from Albert Schweitzer (trans. Ernest Newman ) J. S. Bach (New York: Dover, 1966), vol. 1, p. 167”
“Dem höchsten Gott allein zu Ehren, Dem Nächsten draus sich zu belehren. To the glory of the most high God alone, and that my neighbour may be educated thereby.”
“Much of the music is a Merzbild , put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti”
“The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co”
“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead. Igor Stravinsky. "Subject: Music", New York Times Magazine , 9/27/64.”
“expressed in terms of”
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. 1962, quoted in Andriessen and Schoenberger, The Apollonian Clockwork (1989). Oxford: Oxford University Press.”
“My music is best understood by children and animals . Igor Stravinsky. The Observer, Oct 8, 1961.”
“music, blamed for deserting”
“As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul . Without music in its best sense there is chaos. For my part, music is a force which gives reason to things, a force which creates organization, which attunes things. Music probably attended the creation of the universe . The Musical Digest (1946) [1]”
“For I consider that music is, by its very nature , essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. Expression has never been an inherent property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an illusion and not a reality . It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit and inveterate agreement, we have lent it, thrust upon it, as a label, a convention”
“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano! As quoted in Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale .”
“Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher. As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils .”
“One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality. As quoted in Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils .”
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. As quoted in Chopin .”
“I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me. Quoted in Arthur Hedley , Chopin (1947).”
“My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country. Letter to Camille Pleyel .”
“No one other than I has read your letter. As always, even now, I carry your letters with me. How blissful it will it be for me, having gone beyond the city walls in May, thinking about my approaching journey, to pull out a letter of yours and assure myself sincerely that you love me, or at least to gaze at the hand and the writing of him, whom only I am able to love! Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 27 March 1830”
“I'm glad that the secret is submerged in my heart, that in me is the end of what is for you the beginning. And be glad that you have in me an abyss into which you can cast everything without fear”
“Give me a kiss, dearest lover. I'm certain that you still love me, and I fear you always, like some tyrant over me. I don't know why, but I fear you. Upon my word, only you have power over me, you and... no one else. Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 5 October 1830”
“I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record but I only heard about it when I was in Germany. I don’t know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I’m a bit old. I’m just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck. As quoted in "Blame it on Rio" by Robin Smith, in Record Mirror (26 January 1985) .”
“Hello everybody! Hey hey hey! Okay! Do you know it's not... it's not very often that we do shows in daylight. And I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you! Live at Milton Keynes Bowl (5 June 1982) .”
“Listen, if you guys wanna move around and shift your asses a little, it's okay. It's okay by us, right? You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter... Fuck off! [laughs] During a concert in Montreal, Canada, (24 or 25 November 1981), first released as videotape We Will Rock You (1984) , and later on DVD as Queen Rock Montreal (2007).”
“The Man Who Would Be Queen”
“For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen”
“Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London”
“I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there. As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) .”
“I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!”
“Standing Up For Queen”
“It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land”
“Playing "Bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing. Look (August 10, 1954).”
“My band is my instrument more than the piano. From an interview with Richard O. Boyer , as cited in "The Hot Bach”
“I know what sounds well on a trombone and I know what sounds well on a trumpet and they are not the same. [...] I know what Tricky Sam can play on a trombone and I know what Lawrence Brown can play on a trombone and they are not the same either.”
“[Y]ou've got to write with certain men in mind. You write just for their abilities and natural tendencies and give them places where they do their best”
“You can't write music right [...] until you know how the man that'll play it plays poker.”
“[Expressing a liking for trains] Folks can't rush you until you get off.”
“As Bach says [...] if you ain't got a left hand, you ain't worth a hoot in hell.”
“[Sights enabling musical inspiration] The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician [...] Things like the old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night, or something someone said long ago. I remember I once wrote a sixty”
“I think of music sometimes in terms of color [...] and [in a furnace] I like to see the flames licking yellow in the dark and then pulsing down to a kind of red glow.”
“It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing). Song title (1932).”
“as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory. When you're young, you're still”
“David Bowie: An Obituary”
“Looking back at David Bowie's invaluable advice for young artists”
“Of course I do!!!! its some cunt in a clown suit.”
“Music has given me over 40 years of extraordinary experiences. I can't say that life's pains or more tragic episodes have been diminished because of it. But it's allowed me so many moments of companionship when I've been lonely and a sublime means of communication when I wanted to touch people . It's been both my doorway of perception and the house that I live in. I only hope that it embraces you with the same lusty life force that it graciously offered me. Commencement Address for the Berklee College of Music, at Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts”
“I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. Interviewed in Q magazine”
“Sermon From the Savoy”
“I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians. 1983 Comment, quoted in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60”
“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. Quoted in the chapter on Bowie in Valentines & Vitriol (1978) by Rex Reed”
“Fuck that. I want to be a superman.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
“In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.”
“Don't worry about a thing, cause every little thing gonna be all right.”
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.”
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
“Cosmo Listens to Records”
“I find it easy to write songs. I been writing songs for a long time and the words to the songs aren't written out just for the paper; they're written as you can read it, you dig. If you take whatever there is to the song away”
“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist. Bob Dylan Interview by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston”
“Then I asked this cat,”
“a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet Liner notes , Bringing It All Back Home”
“Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous”
“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self. Letter sent to the ECLC after Dylan received the Tom Paine Award at the Bill of Rights dinner on December 13, 1963, as reported in "Mr. Dylan Regrets" by Niall Stokes, Hot Press”
“There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee”
“Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'”
“Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. Liner notes , The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan”
“Aretha Franklin on IMDb”
“Official Website”
“Congressman John Lewis on Aretha Franklin: ‘One of God’s precious gifts’”
“In order to become Aretha Franklin you really have to be able to assess an inheritance and find yourself able to use it. 1980 interview in Conversations with James Baldwin edited by Louis H. Pratt and Fred L. Standley”
“You walked in on the sly Scopin' for love In the crowd, I caught your eye You can't hide your stuff. You came to catch You thought I'd be naive and tame You met your match I beat you at your own game. " Who's Zoomin' Who ", written with Preston Glass and Narada Michael Walden , from Who's Zoomin' Who?”
“Step n' move your hips With a feelin' from side to side Sit yourself down in your car And take a ride. And while you're movin' Rock steady Rock steady baby. Let's call this song exactly what it is (What it is”
“I want to be what he wants when he wants it, and whenever he needs it And when he's lonesome and feelin' love starved I'll be there to feed it I'm givin' him a little bit for each day He turns me right on when I hear him say (Hey baby let's get away, let's go somewhere far) (Baby can we?) Well I don't care. " Day Dreaming ", from Young”
“People walkin' around everyday, Playin' games and takin' scores. Tryin' to make other people lose their minds. Well be careful you don't lose yours. Oh think (think) Think about what you're tryin' to do to me. Woo”
“(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone”
“Music is the art of the soul and the science of the heart.”
“With Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque music reached its zenith. The prosperous, cultivated world of contemporary Venice shines through all his works, composed with innate craftsmanship. Gramophone (April 28, 2022) [1]”
“Are you interested in the current revival of eighteenth”
“Caricaturists of all countries I have a great interest in; I like to observe what happens to an artist's vision when there is a deliberate distortion for the viewer. This is found in Italian art and in much Italian music. Vivaldi sometimes uses caricature in a very serious and grim sense, not at all comic.”
“Judging Composers: High Notes, and Low”
“Italians have such illustrious people they can celebrate, that everyone celebrates”
“An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).”
“Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90”
“Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica. Translation: If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”