QUOTES FROM GRADE SCHOOL CHILDREN ABOUT MUSIC
“A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.”
“Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music.”
“Refrain means don’t do it. A refrain in music is the part you had better not try to sing.”
“An opera is a song of bigly size.”
“I know what a sextet is but I’d rather not say.”
“Caruso was at first an Italian. Then someone heard his voice and said he would go a long way. And so he came to America.”
“Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and the McCoys”