"Why place limits on expressiveness?" (Don Ellis, in liner notes of his 1961 album "New Ideas")
"My favourite band is The Various Artists" (Adrian Monk, trying to impress a teenage boy)
"Tonschönheit ist Nebensache" (Paul Hindemith, in markings of his 1922 "Sonata for solo violin N° 2, op. 25 N° 1", 4th movement)