Professional Rosewood Marimba

Famous quotes containing the words professional and/or marimba:

    The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    One can smell it turning to gas; if one were Baudelaire
    one could probably hear it turning to marimba music.
    Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)