If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Oscar Wilde
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If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.is a well-known quotation by Seamus Heaney. It is widely believed that this quote was written in response to the fact that his friend, Philip Hobsbaum, played classical music at home. Philip liked classical music so much that he would play it to deafening levels in order to drown out the noise of his family’s house. This annoyed Seamus so much that he wrote this saying in response to their conversation as a sort of advice against such practices as long as the music is not meant for one’s own personal entertainment.

Source: The Importance Of Being Earnest

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