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“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.”

Inspirational Half Music Hell Humorous Filled Drinking Witty Accomplishment Auditoriums

Author:Robert Frost

“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.”

Firsts Half Music Careers Singers Extending Trimming

Author:Ethan Mordden

“Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.”

Humans Half Music Rich Sweet Trump Guitar Horns Flutes Pining Cymbals

Book:Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed

Source: Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed

“When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.”

Stories Half Music Jazz Notes Half The Story

Author:Hubert Laws

“For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.”

People Ifs Way Want Important Fun Half Music Cat Important Things Bored Having Fun Upset Visuals Half Way Smashing

Author:Roger Waters

“Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.”

Kind Half Music

Author:Louis Armstrong

“Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.”

People Wells Different Use Song Half Music Judging Standards Metaphor Fishes Idiot Melody Harper Kettles

Author:Anne McCaffrey