So who said those quotes?

1. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky, composer

2. No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing.
W H Auden, author

3. All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong, jazz legend

4. Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because I listen to pop music?
John Cusack, in High Fidelity

5. Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been running for three hours, you check your watch and it says 6:20.
David Randolph, conductor

6. There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger, author

7. I like your opera. I think I will set it to music.
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer

8. I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'
Bob Newhart, comedian

9. I know two types of audience only - one coughing and one not coughing.
Artur Schnabel, pianist/composer

10. I love Beethoven, especially the poems.
Ringo Starr, pop musician

11. Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
Richard Strauss, composer

12. The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.
Oliver Herford, writer


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