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

- Kurt Weill

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitima…

- Kurt Weill

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight.

- Kurt Weill