Lo! all in silence, all in order stand, And mighty folios first, a lordly band: Then quartos their well-ordered ranks maintain, And light octavos fill a spacious plain; See yonder, ranged in more frequented rows, A humbler band of duodecimos.

-Crabbe, George
The Library (published1808), l.128^33.

Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! Oh, I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin. How can I be civil when hearing this drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses. Oh, give me the free 'n'easy waltz that is Viennesey And go tell the band if they want a hand the waltz must be Strauss's!

-Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz
  'By Strauss'.

O it'sTommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, go away'; But it's'Thank you, Mister Atkins,'when the band begins to play.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Tommy'.

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

-Wilberforce, Samuel
Attributed.