<P>"You see, Pope, Gay and I use all our endeavours to make folks merry and wise, and profess to have no enemies except knaves and fools" - Johnathan Swift
<P>"Handel from Hanover, a man of the vastest genius and skill in music that perhaps has lived since Orpheus." - Viscount Percival, 31 AUG 1731
<P>"Never has perfection in any art been combined in the same man with such fertility of production" - Antoine Prevost, about Handel
<P>"Music fathoms the sky" ~ Charles Baudelaire
<P>"Music is the only one of the fine arts in which not only man, but all other animals, have a common property - mice and elephants, spiders and birds." ~ Jean Paul Richter
<P>"There is music in the beauty, and the silent note that cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we maintain the music of the spheres." ~ Sir Thomas Browne
<P>When he was told that a soloist would need six fingers to perform his concerto, Arnold Schoenberg said, "I can wait".
<P>"I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a crank prostate does to one's polyphony." ~ James Sellars
<P>"Exit in case of Brahms." What Philip Hale proposed be inscribed over the doors of Symphony Hall, Boston
<P>"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?" ~ Igor Stravinsky
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