Quotes by Jonson, Ben

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The >>

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wis >>

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor >>

Quotations about Music

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. >>

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. >>

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. >>

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Jonson, Ben