Backing Musicians Include

Famous quotes containing the words backing, musicians and/or include:

    “And no one, it seemed, had had the presence of mind
    To initiate proceedings or stop the wheel
    From the number it was backing away from as it stopped:
    It was performing prettily; the puncture stayed unseen....”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “We stand in the tumult of a festival.
    What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
    These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
    These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
    A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
    That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.”
    —John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)