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Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

— Steve Martin

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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

As Harris K. Telemacher in L.A. Story (1991)

Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman — it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.

Hosting the 73rd Academy Awards (2001)

Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?

As Harris K. Telemacher in L.A. Story (1991)

You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.

As Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr in The Man with Two Brains (1983)

It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it — The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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