“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” – Igor Stravinsky
“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” – Edvard Grieg
“Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them.” – Richard Strauss
“He’d be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper.” – Richard Strauss on Schoenberg
“I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.” – Ludvig van Beethoven
“I have written a chorale both sober and suitable. In it I have put everything I know about boredom. I dedicate this to those who do not like me.” – Erik Satie
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Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” – Gioacchino Rossini
“What a good thing this isn’t music.” – Gioacchino Rossini on Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
“Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!” – Gioacchino Rossini
“In opera there is always too much singing.” – Claude Debussy
“Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!” – Johann Sebastian Bach
“Listening to the 5th Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.” – Aaron Copland
“The audience expected something big, something colossal, but they were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer.” – Louis Schnieder on Debussy’s La Mer
“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.” – Clara Schumann on Liszt
“What a giftless bastard!” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on Brahms
“Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting.” – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Bach on the wrong notes” –
Sergei Prokofiev on Stravinsky
And, saving the best for last…
“Lick my ass up and down” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feel free to add more! (Also please don’t think that I agree with all of these, I am a huge fan of Symphonie Fantastique and La Mer!!)
Omg this is what I’ve been waiting for
i want to emphasize that Mozart literally put “Lick my ass up and down” to music. fucker wrote a SONG called “Lick My Ass Nice and Clean.” that quote is from the fucking lyrics. and it’s not just for a funny little song, it’s for a fucking 3-voice canon. fucker worked on this. and it’s actually a really good song. and these are the fucking lyrics:
Lick my ass nicely, lick it nice and clean, nice and clean, lick my ass. That’s a greasy desire, nicely buttered, like the licking of roast meat, my daily activity. Three will lick more than two, come on, just try it, and lick, lick, lick. Everybody lick their ass for themselves.
A good song. but to be honest, i much prefer the simpler but catchy tune, “Lick Me in the Ass,” which consisted solely of the phrase “lick me in the ass. lick me in the ass, quickly”repeated over and over.
here (it gets really good around the 1:20 mark)
sometimes i open it in multiple tabs and turn the volume up, it makes me feel powerful
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