Kurt Weill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
-- Kurt Weill

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Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight.
-- Kurt Weill

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It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theaterâ€¦ it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.
-- Kurt Weill

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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Kurt Weill famous quotes

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