H. L. Mencken Quotes about Music

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There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

H. L. Mencken

Funny, Music, Humorous

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

H. L. Mencken

Music, Baseball, Italian

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

H. L. Mencken

Music, Feelings, Mirth

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.524, Vintage

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

H. L. Mencken

Music, Girl, Eye

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

H. L. Mencken

Music, Symphony, Mind

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

H. L. Mencken

Music, Rain, Two

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

H. L. Mencken

Music, Home, Musician

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

H. L. Mencken

Music, Singing, May

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.545, Vintage