Quotes from Kurt Weill

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one? (Three Penny Opera)

Yesterday a very interesting, beautifully photografed english picture about a nun convent in India, "Black Narcissus," with Deborah Kerr who is quite lovely. They are away ahead of Hollywood, better ideas, better scripts, better color, and much better acting. Kurt Weill, London, May 8, 1947