Strauss quotes

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'.

   You're the top You're the Louvr'Museum You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss.

-Porter, Cole
  'You're theTop', from the show Anything Goes.

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