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Quote by Robert Benchley
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dyin

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. – Robert Benchley

Other quotes by Robert Benchley

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. – Robert Benchley

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Baseball
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Robert Benchley
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about – Robert Benchley

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Argument & Debate
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Robert Benchley
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Other Quotes from
Music
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Music

Im probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 – to meet women. – Billy Joel

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Music

Im not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, its just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. Theres a lot of people who are committed to – soulfully. – Jerry Garcia

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Music

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Music

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – John Muir

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Beauty

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do. – James Levine

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relationship

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness

The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. – William Wordsworth

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