Quotes on Saloons

Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.

It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.