This is one I once had pinned down, but have lost the source again, but it goes something like this : Royal patron, to composer : Good music sir, but too many notes. :D
The old song : "Put another nickel in In the Nickleodeon And we'll have music, music, music" From a poster named Metoo, at the Steve Hoffman music forum, about the phenomenon of growing to appreciate music you didn't originally 'get'. "Just wait 'till you start experiencing another...
Andrew, right you are.:b And to think I got the remark by Schelling right out of the Oxford Dictionary of quotations. Funny thing, the misquote 'beast' is probably part of the language by now. A proper malapropism, if there is such a thing :)
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast (or beast) - not sure which is accurate, but from Shakespeare. Architecture in general is frozen music - Schelling. Sort of about music, anyway :) BTW, neat idea for a thread