Better Than It Sounds is sometimes pithy, sometimes provacative, sometimes profound and always amusing, these quotes by famous (and not so famous) musicians will brighten your day.
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David W. Barber is a journalist, musician and best-selling author of several Sound And Vision books including Bach, Beethoven and the Boys and Tutus, Tights and Tiptoes, and also editor of two previous books in the Quotable series, Quotable Alice and Quotable Sherlock.
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Indeed better than it sounds,
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This review is from: Better Than It Sounds!: A Dictionary of Humourous Musical Quotations (Paperback)
I'm glad I have the chance to voice my opinion. David Barber does an excellent job finding and presenting mostly musical quotations. In some cases, he lists quotes that have nothing to do with music except that a musician said it, and I found that annoying. Yes, he does use some sarcasm, but he also uses puns and plays on words and some of them had me in fits of laughter. If you like David Barber, you will like this book. If you don't like his sense of humor, you won't.
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Depressing,
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Sarcasim is not a kind of humor I enjoy. Most of the quotes were sarcastic and demeaning of music and musicians. I was looking for quotes that were amusing without being derogatory.
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A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Thomas Beecham, George Bernard Shaw, Russian-born American, Gioacchino Rossini, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Oscar Wilde, Erik Satie, Ernest Newman, Mark Twain, Rite of Spring, The Beatles, Artur Schnabel, Bette Midler, Danish-born American, Donald Swann, Frank Zappa, Joan Rivers, John Lennon, Mothers of Invention, Noel Coward, Oscar Levant, Sir Elton John, The Devil's Dictionary, The Rolling Stones New!
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A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Thomas Beecham, George Bernard Shaw, Russian-born American, Gioacchino Rossini, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Oscar Wilde, Erik Satie, Ernest Newman, Mark Twain, Rite of Spring, The Beatles, Artur Schnabel, Bette Midler, Danish-born American, Donald Swann, Frank Zappa, Joan Rivers, John Lennon, Mothers of Invention, Noel Coward, Oscar Levant, Sir Elton John, The Devil's Dictionary, The Rolling Stones New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Quotable Sherlock (Quotable Books) by David W. Barber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde on page 9, and page 89
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) by Oscar Wilde on page 9, and page 89
- Quotable Alice (Quotable Books) by David W. Barber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Book of rock quotes by Jonathon Green in Back Matter
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