Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/1982%e2%80%932008 - Russians and Americans

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    The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man—that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense—has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Pop” Wyman ruled here with a firm but gentle hand; no drunken man was ever served at the bar; no married man was allowed to play at the tables; across the face of the large clock was written “Please Don’t Swear,” and over the orchestra appeared the gentle admonition, “Don’t Shoot the Pianist—He’s Doing His Damndest.”
    —Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program. Colorado: A Guide to the Highest State (The WPA Guide to Colorado)

    Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told
    The streets in heaven are lined with gold.
    I ask you how things could get much worse
    If the Russians happen to get up there first;
    Wowee! pretty scary!
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.
    Bob Geldof (b. 1954)