doorkeeper quotes

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 84:10.

After I die I am coming back to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello. And I won't let a one of you in.

-Toscanini, Arturo
To an uncooperative orchestra. Quoted in Norman Lebrecht Discord (1982).

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