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1. "I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to."
Which famous controversial 20th century singer spoke those words?
2. "Hell is full of musical amateurs."
Which Irish playwright, known for a play which was later adapted into the musical "My Fair Lady," made this acute observation?
3. "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Which English writer, who penned a novel about an eerie future, also spoke the above quotation?
4. "To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
Which American composer, known for works like "A Lincoln Portrait," said this?
5. "Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable."
Which 16th century German theologian, reformer and hymn writer made that observation?
6. "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
Which French author, who penned "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," spoke these words about the power of music?
7. "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Which satirist, who coined the expression "the dismal science" for economics spoke these words?
8. "An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."
Which 20th century newsman, born in Texas, spoke those words?
9. "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
Which Marx Brother, born Julius Henry Marx, made the above observation?
10. "I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."
Which funny American, born with the last name Konigsberg, made that statement?
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