Kaden > Kaden's Quotes

“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
― Frank Zappa

“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
― Robert Benchley

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
― David Mamet, Boston Marriage

“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
― Leopold Stokowski

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.

...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― Henry David Thoreau, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde