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Commentary © 2007-2008   Richard Chandler & Bonnett Chandler

Three sharp barbs regarding music...

“There are some experiences in life that should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.”

- George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

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“A gentlemen is a man who can play an accordion but doesn’t”

- Anonymous

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“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.”

- Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

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This American humorist began his career by breaking horses for the British government in South Africa, then lasso roping for various circuses and evolved to doing monologs based on the daily news while in vaudeville.

“There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”

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From the writer of the famous book, later made into a movie with Doris Day, Please Don’t Eat The Daisies…

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.”

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This writer spent 2 years in a Nazi concentration camp and escaped in a German uniform shortly before the Jewish prisoners were killed. The Polish Communist state also refused to allow him to be published during much of the 1950’s...

“’Oh to be old again,’ said a young corpse”

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I must respectfully disagree with George Burns, as you could be eminently qualified to run the country by working in your family’s oil business and co-owning the Texas Rangers baseball team.

“Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.”

- George Burns (1896-1996)

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