Professional Rosewood Marimba

Famous quotes containing the words professional and/or marimba:

    “I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.”
    —Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)

    “One can smell it turning to gas; if one were Baudelaire
    one could probably hear it turning to marimba music.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)