“Beer, tobacco, and music,” he went on. “Behold the Fatherland.”
"Herr Settembrini" commenting on Germany, in Ch. 4
The Magic Mountain (1924)
“Next to music, beer was best.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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"Stratford-on-Avon".
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Martin Luther
(1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Joschka Fischer
(1948) German politician
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After the 2005 Bundestags election discussion of the so-called Jamaica coalition.
“My music is best understood by children and animals.”
Igor Stravinsky
(1882–1971) Russian composer, pianist and conductor
Igor Stravinsky. The Observer, Oct 8, 1961.
1960s