An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music

Writing about music-about what it is and what it means-is akin to describing the act of love. Somehow, the reduction of the experience to an unblushingly detailed exposition of how, where, when, and why who does what to whom, from prelude to resolu­ tion,

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An Encyclopedia of QUlJtations About Music compiled and edited by NAT SHAPIRO

A DA CAPO PAPERBACK

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title l An Encyclopedia of quotations about music.

(A Da Capo paperback) Reprint of the 1978 ed. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. Includes indexes. 1. Music-Quotations, maxims, etc. I. Shapiro, Nat. [ML66.E61981] 780 80-29200 ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9629-5 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9627-1 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4615-9627-1

This Da Capo Press paperback edition of An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New York in 1978. It is reprinted by arrangement with Doubleday & Co. Copyright © 1977 by Nat Shapiro Published by Da Capo Press, Inc. A Subsidiary of Plenum Publishing Corporation 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 All Rights Reserved Manufactured in the United States of America

For permission to use quotatiOT18 from the copyrighted material listed below, the author wishes to thank the foUowing: Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc., "Tennessee Waltz," by Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King, copyright © 1948, renewed 1975 by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc., used by pennission of the publisher, all rights reserved; Belwin-Mills Publishing Corporation, "Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," by Lewis, Young, and Schwartz, copyright © 1918 by Mills Music, Inc., copyright renewed by Mills Music, Inc., and Warock Music, used with permission, all rights reserved; Bourne Company, "Music, Maestro, Please," by Herb Magidson and Allie Wrubel, copyright © 1938 by Bourne Company, copyright renewed; this pennission is granted with a most-favored-nation clause; Famous Music Publishing Companies, "Sing You Sinners," by Sam Coslow and W. Franke Harling, copyright © 1930 by Famous Music Corporation, copyright renewed 1957 by Famous Music Corporation; "(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It," words and music by Sam Coslow, copyright © 1936 by Famous Music Corporation, copyright renewed 1963 by Famous Music Corporation; "I Hear Music," words and music by Frank Loesser and Burton Lane, copyrig!lt © 1940 by Famous Music Corporation, copyright © renewed 1967 by Famous Music Corporation; Holt, Rinehart & Winston, The Firnzl Dimy, by Ned Rorem, copyright © 1974 by Ned Rorem, reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Publishers; Pure Contraption, by Ned Rorem, copyright © 1974 by Ned Rorem, reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Publishers; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Doctor Faustus, by Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, copyright © 1948 by H. T. Lowe-Porter, reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Publishers; Buddenbrooks, by Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, copyright © 1964 by H. T. Lowe-Porter, reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Publishers; The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann, translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter, copyright © 1956 by H. T. Lowe-Porter, reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Publishers; Speaking of Pianists, by Abra