var quotes = new Array;
quotes[0] = 'Next to silence, the nearest thing to expressing the inexpressible is music!';
quotes[1] = 'The theatre is not the place for the musician.  When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience. (Arthur Sullivan)';
quotes[2] = 'Music is in a continual state of becoming. (Aaron Copland)';
quotes[3] = 'The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music. (Aaron Copland)';
quotes[4] = 'Music is the crystallization  of sound. (Henry David Thoreau)';
quotes[5] = 'Music is what unifies. (Seu-Ma-Tsen)';
quotes[6] = 'Music does not lie to the feelings. (Franz Liszt)';
quotes[7] = 'Harmony alone can stir the emotions.  It is the one source from which melody emanates, and draws its power. (Jean-Philippe Rameau)';
quotes[8] = 'The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. (Sir Thomas Beecham)';
quotes[9] = 'The business of music should in some measure lead to the love of the beautiful. (Plato)';
quotes[10] = 'Do not try to be a genius in every bar (of music). (Gabriel Faure)';
quotes[11] = 'Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope! (Mahalia Jackson)';
quotes[12] = 'Never be afraid to dare.  And never imitate.  Play without asking advice. (Vladimir Horowitz)';
quotes[13] = 'In music there is no form without logic, there is no logic without unity. (Arnold Schoenberg)';
quotes[14] = 'Nothing recalls the past like music. (Madame De Stael)';
quotes[15] = 'To play (or sing) great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star. (Yehudi Menuhin)';
quotes[16] = 'Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don,t live it, it won,t come out of your horn. (Charlie Parker)';
quotes[17] = 'Nothing is wrong when done to music. (Jerome Kern)';
quotes[18] = 'When I am composing, I feel just like a mathematician. (Gustav Holst)';
quotes[19] = 'Music began with singing. (Curt Sachs)';
quotes[20] = 'It is much easier to play a thing quickly than to play it slowly. (W A Mozart)';
quotes[21] = 'The life of man in every part has need of harmony and rhythm.  (Plato)';
quotes[22] = 'Oh, how difficult it is to make anyone see and feel in music what we see and feel ourselves! (P I Tchaikovsky)';
quotes[23] = 'Music:  The only universal tongue. (Samuel Rogers)';
quotes[24] = 'Among the artistic hierarchy, birds are probably the greatest musicians to inhabit our planet. (Olivier Messiaen)';
quotes[25] = 'To some people music is like food;  to others like medicine; to others like a fan.';
quotes[26] = 'I need Bach at the beginning of the day almost more than I need food and water. (Pablo Casals)';
quotes[27] = 'Next to silence, the nearest thing to expressing the inexpressible is music!';
quotes[28] = 'Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. (Frank Zappa)';
quotes[29] = 'Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. (Goethe)';
quotes[30] = 'Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. (H L Menken)';
quotes[31] = 'If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period with a possible exception in the case of the Creation. (Ernest Newman)';


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