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• Song opens a window to the secret places of the soul.
  • Habad. quoted in Siegel et al. compilers and eds. (1973) The Jewish Catalogue, p.211. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. ISBN 0827600429.

• It is best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
  • Hilaire Belloc, On Everything, ‘On Song.’

• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark.

• The best days of the church have always been its singing days.
  • Theodore L. Cuyler, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 554.

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• Chamber music—a conversation between friends.
  • Catherine Drinker Bowen

• Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold a half million copies!
  • Irving Berlin speaking to Cole Porter.

• Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
  • Samuel Johnson

• If an opera cannot be played by an organ-grinder, it is not going to achieve immortality.
  • Thomas Beecham

• Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
  • Kim Hubbard