//
// quotegen.js
// The script will display random quote about music
// Author: fgj absil
// Date: 6 may 2003, 06/01/07
//
var myQuote=new Array();
var iQuote=0;
var j=0;
// myQuote[j]="Get a quote ..."; j++;
myQuote[j]="I have a reasonable good ear in music.<br />"+
           "Let's have the tongs and the bones<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.<br />"+
           "Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="This will prove a brave kingdom to me,<br />"+
           "where I shall have my music for nothing.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, The Tempest)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="This music crept by me upon the waters,<br />"+
           "allaying both their fury and my passion with its "+
           "sweet air.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, The Tempest)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Here we will sit and let the sounds of music "+
           "creep in our ears;<br />"+
           "soft stillness and the night become the touches "+
           "of sweet harmony.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="How sour sweet music is when time is broke and "+
           "no proportion kept!<br />"+
           "So is it in the music of men's lives<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Richard II)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="The man that hath no music in himself,<br />"+
           "nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,<br />"+
           "is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Sonnet 8)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,<br />"+
           "Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds,<br />"+
           "With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st,<br />"+
           "The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,<br />"+
           "Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap. <br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Sonnet 128)"; j++;
// myQuote[j]="C'est le ton qui fait la musique."; j++
myQuote[j]="I am quite perplexed in a world of doubt and fancies - <br />"+
           "there is nothing stable in the world;<br/>"+
           "uproar's your only music.<br />"+
           "(Keats)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Women and music should never be dated.<br />"+
           "(Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="See the conquering hero comes!<br />"+
           "Sound the Trumpets; beat the Drums!<br />"+
           "(Thomas Morell, Joshua)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Certainly, I must confess mine own barbarousness,<br />"+
           "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas,<br />"+
           "that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.<br />"+
           "(Sir Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Little Boy Blue, Come blow your horn,<br />"+
           "The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.<br />"+
           "(Nursery rhyme)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.<br />"+
           "(Oscar Wilde, Impressions of America)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling.<br />"+
           "For you but not for me.<br />"+
           "(Anonymous, Song of 1914-1918 War)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="The bell invites me.<br/>"+
           "Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell<br />"+
           "that summons thee to heaven or to hell.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Macbeth)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Art is long and Time is fleeting,<br />"+
           "and our hearts though stout and brave, still,<br/>"+
           "like muffled drums are beating "+
           "funeral marches to the grave.<br />"+
           "(H.W. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,<br />"+
           "than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes.<br />"+
           "(A. Tennyson, The Lotos Eaters)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Piping down the valleys wild, "+
           "piping songs of pleasant glee,<br />"+
           "on a cloud I saw a child.<br />"+
           "(W. Blake, Songs of Innocence)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,<br />"+
           "lest you should think he never could recapture<br />"+
           "the first fine careless rapture!<br />"+
           "(R. Browning, Homethoughts, from Abroad)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.<br />"+
           "(G. Byron, English Bards and Scotch reviewers)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="In winter, when the fields are white,<br />"+
           "I sing this song for your delight.<br />"+
           "(L. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Unlike my subject will I frame my song,<br />"+
           "it shall be witty and it shan't be long.<br />"+
           "(P. Chesterfield, Epigram)";
myQuote[j]="Good people all, of every sort, give ear unto my song;<br />"+
           "and if you find it wond'rous short, "+
           "it cannot hold you long.<br />"+
           "(O. Goldsmith, Elegy on the death of a Mad Dog)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Where are the songs of spring?<br />"+
           "Ay, where are they?<br />"+
           "Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.<br />"+
           "(J. Keats, To Autumn)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="It came upon the midnight clear, "+
           "that glorious song of old.<br />"+
           "(E. Sears, That Glorious Song of Old)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I can suck melancholy out of a song, "+
           "as a weasel sucks eggs.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, As You Like It)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song:<br />"+
           "sing it with a spirit that will start the world along.<br />"+
           "(H. Work, Marching through Georgia)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="When I was young,<br />"+
           "I had not given a penny for a song<br />"+
           "did not the poet sing it with such airs<br />"+
           "that one believed he had a sword upstairs.<br />"+
           "(W. Yeats, All things can tempt Me)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Take the tone of the company you're in.<br />"+
           "(P. Chesterfield, Letter to his son)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="You threaten us, fellow? Do your worst,<br />"+
           "blow your pipe there till you burst!<br />"+
           "(R. Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin)";
myQuote[j]="Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,<br />"+
           "blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.<br />"+
           "(A. Tennyson, The Princess Prologue)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Men's evil manners live in brass;<br />"+
           "their virtues we write in water.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Henry the Eigth)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Untwisting all the chains that tie "+
           "the hidden soul of harmony.<br />"+
           "(J. Milton, L'Allegro)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="All nature is but art, unknown to thee;<br />"+
           "All chance, direction which thou canst not see;<br />"+
           "All discord, harmony not understood.<br />"+
           "(A. Pope, An Essay on Man)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods<br />"+
           "make heaven drowsy with the harmony.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Praise the Lord with harp:<br />"+
           "sing unto him with the "+
           "psaltery and an instrument of the strings.<br />"
           "(Bible, Book of Common Prayer)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="The harp that once through Tara's halls "+
           "the soul of music shed<br />"+
           "now hangs as mute on Tara's walls<br />"+
           "as if that soul were fled.<br />"+
           "(T. Moore, Irish Melodies)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Harp is not on that string.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Richard the Third)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I am never merry when I hear sweet music.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I heard a thousand blended notes while in a grove<br />"+
           "I sate reclined, in that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts<br />"+
           "bring sad thoughts to the mind.<br />"+
           "(W. Wordsworth, Lines written in early Spring)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I do not think that they will sing to me.<br />"+
           "(T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.<br />"+
           "(J. Milton, L'Allegro)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,<br />"+
           "that can sing both high and low.<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I celebrate myself, and sing myself,<br />"+
           "and what I assume you shall assume.<br />"+
           "(W. Whitman, Song of Myself)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Take but degree away, untune that string,<br />"+
           "and hark what discord follows!<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.<br />"+
           "(P. Shelley, To -)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Le silence est le partie le plus s"+String.fromCharCode(251)+
           "r de celui qui se d"+String.fromCharCode(233)+
           "fie de soi-m"+String.fromCharCode(234)+"me.<br />"+
           "(La Rochefoucauld, R"+
           String.fromCharCode(233)+"flexions morales)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Les esprits m"+String.fromCharCode(233)+
           "diocres condamnent d'ordinaire tout ce qui passe "+
           "leur port"+String.fromCharCode(233)+"e.<br />"+
           "(La Rochefoucauld, R"+
           String.fromCharCode(233)+"flexions morales)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="On ne doit pas juger du m"+String.fromCharCode(233)+"rite "+
           "d'un homme par ses grandes qualit"+String.fromCharCode(233)+
           "s, mais par l'usage qu'il en sait faire.<br />"+
           "(La Rochefoucauld, R"+
           String.fromCharCode(233)+"flexions morales)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Il y a de m"+String.fromCharCode(233)+"chantes "+
           "qualit"+String.fromCharCode(233)+"s qui font de "+
           "grands talents.<br />"+
           "(La Rochefoucauld, R"+String.fromCharCode(233)+
           "flexions morales)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Il y a de belles choses qui ont plus d'"+String.fromCharCode(233)+
           "clat quand elles demeurent imparfaites que quand elles "+
           "sont trop achev"+String.fromCharCode(233)+"es.<br />"+
           "(La Rochefoucauld, Maximes supprim"+
           String.fromCharCode(233)+"s)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I always maintained that most of the composers of today are "+
           "able to write only introductions, able only to place one thing "+
           "next to another.<br />"+
           "(A. Schoenberg, Tonality and Form)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="It is amazing that serious composers have to make do "+
           "with relatively immobile or thin bass instruments, "+
           "while their un-serious colleagues, when writing for the "+
           "military band, enjoy command of full-sounding "+
           "bass instruments with virtuoso mobility.<br />"+
           "(A. Schoenberg, The Future of Orchestral Instruments)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen "+
           "coffee-table gossip, instability caught in the act, a parody "+
           "of all logical thinking.<br />"+
           "(A. Schoenberg, Glosses on the Theories of Others)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Together with music, pure mathematics, in its disinterested "+
           "irrelevance, is probably the crowning enigma of our so often "+
           "dubious presence in the world.<br />"+
           "(G. Steiner, Grammars of Creation)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="The arts, and music above all, give to man the freedom "+
           "of his otherwise mortal city.<br />"+
           "(G. Steiner, Grammars of Creation)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Trommle die Leute aus dem Schlaf,<br/>"+
           "trommle Reveille mit Jugendkraft,<br />"+
           "marschiere trommelnd immer voran,<br />"+
           "das ist die ganze Wissenschaft.<br />"+
           "(H. Heine, Zeitgedichte)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="In der Kunst kommt es nicht darauf an, da"+
           String.fromCharCode(223)+
           " man Eier und Fett nimmt, sondern da"+String.fromCharCode(223)+
           " man Feuer und Pfanne hat.<br />"+
           "(K. Kraus, Aphorismen)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Manche Talente bewahren ihre Fr"+String.fromCharCode(252)+
           "hreife bis ins sp"+String.fromCharCode(228)+"te Alter.<br />"+
           "(K. Kraus, Aphorismen)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Der Wissenschaftler bringt nichts neues.<br />"+
           "Er erfindet nur, was gebraucht wird. Der K"+
           String.fromCharCode(252)+"nstler entdeckt, was nicht "+
           "gebraucht wird. Er bringt das Neue.<br />"+
           "(K. Kraus, Aphorismen)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="K"+String.fromCharCode(252)+"nstler ist nur einer, der aus der L"+
           String.fromCharCode(246)+"sung ein R"+String.fromCharCode(228)+
           "tsel machen kann.<br />"+
           "(K. Kraus, Aphorismen)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Qualis artifex pero!<br />"+
           "(Emperor Nero, last words on his dying bed)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Auf welches Instrument sind wir gespannt?<br />"+
           "Und welcher Geiger hat uns in der Hand?<br />"+
           "(R.M. Rilke, Neue Gedichte)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Ich trat in die Gasse hinaus und sieh:<br />"+
           "die ist wie mit Saiten bespannt;<br />"+
           "da wurde Marie Melodie, Melodie ...<br />"+
           "und tanzte von Rand zu Rand.<br />"+
           "(R.M. Rilke, Der Wahnsinn)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Ich bin die Ruhe zwischen zweien T"+
           String.fromCharCode(246)+"nen,<br />"+
           "die sich nur schlecht aneinander gew"+
            String.fromCharCode(246)+"hnen:<br />"+
           "denn der Ton Tod will sich erh"+
           String.fromCharCode(246)+"hn -<br />"+
           "Aber im dunklen Intervall vers"+
           String.fromCharCode(246)+"hnen "+
           "sich beide zitternd.<br />"+
           "Und das Lied bleibt sch"+
           String.fromCharCode(246)+"n.<br />"+
           "(R.M. Rilke, Das Buch vom m"+
           String.fromCharCode(246)+"nchischen Leben)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Tomorrow, night will come again - Perhaps, "+
           "weary and sore -<br />"+
           "Ah Bugle! By my window I pray you pass once more.<br />"+
           "(E. Dickinson, The Complete Poems of)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Musicians wrestle everywhere - All day -<br />"+
           "among the crowded air I hear the silver strife.<br />"+
           "(E. Dickinson, The Complete Poems of)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Some work for immortality - <br />"+
           "The chiefer part, for time.<br />"+
           "He compensates immediately - <br />"+
           "The former checks on fame.<br />"+
           "(E. Dickinson, The Complete Poems of)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="She said her strings were snapt - Her bow to atoms blown -<br />"+
           "And so to mend her gave me work - Until another morn.<br />"+
           "(E. Dickinson, The Complete Poems of)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Dying at my music! Bubble! Bubble!<br />"+
           "Hold me till the Octave's run!<br />"+
           "(E. Dickinson, The Complete Poems of)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="The fascination that music leaves is Earth's<br />"+
           "corroboration of Ecstasy's impediment.<br />"+
           "(E. Dickinson, The Complete Poems of)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Music's triumphant - But the fine Ear winces with delight,<br />"+
           "Are Drums too near.<br />"+
           "(E. Dickinson, The Complete Poems of)";j++;
myQuote[j]="O decus Phoebi et dapibus supremi grata testudo Iovis,<br />"+
           "o laborum dulce lenimen mihi cumque salve rite vocanti.<br />"+
           "(Horace, Carmina I-33)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Omnibus hoc vitium est cantiborus, inter amicos ut<br />"+
           "numquam inducant animum cantare rogati, iniussi<br />"+
           "numquam desistant.<br />"+
           "(Horace, Sermones I-3)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Johann Sebastian Bach was a master of his Fach;<br />"+
           "Nothing could be more kluge than his Kunst der Fuge.<br />"+
           "(W.H. Auden, Academic Graffiti)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Orchestras have so long be speaking this universal language "+
           "that the Greek and the Barbarian have both mastered its "+
           "enigmatic grammar which at last says all things well.<br />"+
           "(W.H. Auden, Music is International)";j++;
myQuote[j]="O what is that sound which so thrills the ear,<br />"+
           "Down in the valley drumming, drumming?<br />"+
           "(W.H. Auden, O What Is That Sound)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Let a florid music praise, The flute and the trumpet,<br />"+
           "Beauty's conquest of your face.<br />"+
           "(W.H. Auden, Twelve Songs)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Eagerly, Musician, Strike your string,<br />"+
           "So we may sing,<br />"+
           "Elated, optative, Our several voices interblending,<br />"+
           "Playfully contending.<br />"+
           "(W.H. Auden, United Nations Hymn)";j++;
myQuote[j]="An die Muse: Was ich ohne dich w"+
            String.fromCharCode(228)+"re, ich wei"+
            String.fromCharCode(223)+" es nicht; "+
           "aber mir grauet, seh ich, was ohne dich "+
           "hundert' und tausende sind.<br />"+
           "(J.W. Goethe/F. Schiller, Xenien 1796)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Der Virtuose: Eine hohe Noblesse bedien' ich heut mit der Fl"+
            String.fromCharCode(246)+"te, die, wie ganz Wien mir bezeugt, "+
            "v"+String.fromCharCode(246)+"llig wie Geige sich "+
            "h"+String.fromCharCode(246)+"rt.<br />"+
           "(J.W. Goethe/F. Schiller, Xenien 1796)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Seid, geliebte kleine Lieder, Zeugen meiner Fr"+
            String.fromCharCode(246)+"hlichkeit; Ach sie kommt gewi"+
            String.fromCharCode(223)+" nicht wieder, dieser Tage Fr"+
            String.fromCharCode(252)+"hlingszeit.<br />"+
           "(J.W. Goethe, An meine Lieder)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Seh' ich die Werke der Meister an,<br />"+
           "so seh ich das, was sie getan;<br />"+
           "Betracht' ich meine Siebensachen,<br />"+
           "seh' ich, was ich h"+String.fromCharCode(228)+
           "tt' sollen machen.<br />"+
           "(J.W. Goethe, Demut)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Zuerst im stillsten Raum entsprungen,<br />"+
           "Das Lied erklingt von Ort zu Ort;<br />"+
           "Wie es in Geist und Seel erklungen,<br />"+
           "So hallt's nach allen Seiten fort.<br />"+
           "(J.W. Goethe, Inschriften, Sammlung von 1827)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="A m"+String.fromCharCode(250)+"sica...<br />"+
           "Um piano l"+String.fromCharCode(225)+" em cima "+
           "com algu"+String.fromCharCode(233)+"m o toca mal...<br />"+
           "Mas "+String.fromCharCode(233)+
           " m"+String.fromCharCode(250)+"sica...<br />"+
           "("+String.fromCharCode(193)+"lvaro de Campos [Fernando Pessoa], "+
           "O engenheiro aposentado)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Mas o facto "+String.fromCharCode(233)+" que a banda de "+
           "bordo cessa, e eu verifico que pensei em ti enquanto "+
           "durou a banda de bordo.<br />"+
           "("+String.fromCharCode(193)+"lvaro de Campos [Fernando Pessoa], "+
           "Epis"+String.fromCharCode(243)+"dios)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Die Zeit, sie orgelt emsig weiter,<br />"+
           "Sein Liedchen singt dir jeden Tag,<br />"+
           "Vermischt mit T"+String.fromCharCode(246)+
           "nen, die nicht heiter,<br />"+
           "Wo keiner was von h"+String.fromCharCode(246)+"ren mag.<br />"+
           "(Wilhelm Busch, Wanderlust)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Ein gutes Tier ist das Klavier,<br />"+
           "Still, friedlich und bescheiden,<br />"+
           "Und mu"+String.fromCharCode(223)+" dabei doch vielerlei,<br />"+
           "Erdulden und erleiden.<br />"+
           "(Wilhelm Busch, Gemartert)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Fort mit der sonst so aktuellen Harfe!<br />"+
           "Heut pfeif ich mir nach eigenem Bedarfe<br />"+
           "auf meiner Fl"+String.fromCharCode(246)+
           "te einen in Cis-Moll<br />"+
           "von dem, was ist; von dem, was werden soll.<br />"+
           "(Kurt Tucholsky, Selbstbesinnung)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Omar Shab, der Hoffl"+String.fromCharCode(246)+"tiste,<br />"+
           "auf dem Markt zu Teheran,<br />"+
           "steht auf einer Eierkiste,<br />"+
           "stimmt die neue Sure an: Oh kaleika, leika, leika -<br />"+
           "(Kurt Tucholsky, Persisch)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Liebe sey vor allen Dingen,<br />"+
           "Unser Thema wenn wir singen;<br />"+
           "Kann sie gar das Lied durchdringen,<br />"+
           "Wird's um desto besser klingen.<br />"+
           "(J.W. Goethe, Elemente)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Fort waechst der Fl"+String.fromCharCode(246)+"tenton,<br />"+
           "Schall der Posaunen,<br />"+
           "Ich irre, rase schon,<br />"+
           "Ist das zu staunen.<br />"+
           "(J.W. Goethe, Zwiespalt)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Someone frames upon the keys that exquisite nocturne,<br />"+
           "with which we explain the night and moonshine;<br />"+
           "music which we seize to body forth our vacuity.<br />"+
           "(T.S. Eliot, Conversation galante)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem,<br />"+
           "In gentle numbers time so idly spent;<br />"+
           "Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem,<br />"+
           "And gives thy pen both skill and argument<br />"+
           "(W. Shakespeare, Sonnet 100)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Ists recht, wenn ich ein Liedchen quarre?<br />"+
           "So komm, du Tr"+String.fromCharCode(246)+"sterin, herbei, "+
           "du buntbewimpelte Gitarre -<br />"+
           "am ersten Mai!<br />"+
           "(Kurt Tucholsky, Der erste Mai)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Nun zw"+String.fromCharCode(228)+"ngt, die sonst Musik die "+
           "T"+String.fromCharCode(246)+"chter lehrte,<br />"+
           "sich ins Schwarzseidne mit dem Krachkorsett;<br />"+
           "und da"+String.fromCharCode(223)+
           " man Haydn, Bach und Koschat ehrte,<br />"+
           "beweist man durch Gesang und am Spinett.<br />"+
           "(Kurt Tucholsky, Die Musik kommt)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Ich danke Dir. Dein Lied wird weiterschwingen,<br />"+
           "Wird mich durch fremde Wunderl"+String.fromCharCode(228)+"nder "+
           "f"+String.fromCharCode(252)+"hren.<br />"+
           "Und meiner Seele reinste Saiten r"+
           String.fromCharCode(252)+"hren.<br />"+
           "Und seine Kl"+String.fromCharCode(228)+
           "nge werden nie verklingen.<br />"+
           "(Joachim Ringelnatz, der S"+String.fromCharCode(228)+"ngerin)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Weiche Finger auf den Tasten spielten traumverlohren.<br />"+
           "Brausend wogten aus dem Kasten Walzerstimmmen, "+
           "lustgeboren.<br />"+
           "(Joachim Ringelnatz, Kl"+String.fromCharCode(228)+
           "nge aus zwei Welten)";j++;
myQuote[j]="I do not think the performers know themselves -<br />"+
           "but now I think I begin to know them.<br /> "+
           "(Walt Whitman, That Music Always Round Me)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician,<br />"+
           "Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes tonight.<br /> "+
           "(Walt Whitman, The Mystic Trumpeter)";j++;
myQuote[j]="Musik ... sie ist das halb Artikulierte, das Zweifelhafte,<br />"+
           "das Unverantwortliche, das Indifferente.<br /> "+
           "(Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Das Zeitelement der Musik ist nur eines: <br />"+
           "ein Ausschnitt menschlicher Erdenzeit, in den sie sich "+
           "ergie"+String.fromCharCode(223)+"t, <br /> "+
           "um ihn unsagbar zu adeln und zu erh"+String.fromCharCode(246)+
           "hen.<br /> "+
           "(Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Das Lied bedeutete ihm viel, eine ganze Welt, <br />"+
           "und zwar eine Welt, die er wohl lieben mu"
           +String.fromCharCode(223)+"te, <br />"+
           "da er sonst in ihr stellvertretendes Gleichnis <br /> "+
           "nicht so vernarrt gewesen w"+String.fromCharCode(228)+"re.<br /> "+
           "(Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="En la m"+String.fromCharCode(250)+"sica "+
           "est"+String.fromCharCode(225)+"n, en el cordaje <br />"+
           "de la terca guitarra trabajosa <br />"+
           "que trama en la milonga venturosa <br /> "+
           "la fiesta y la  inocencia del coraje.<br /> "+
           "(Jorge Luis Borges, El Tango)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Yo que soy un intruso en los jardines <br />"+
           "que has prodigado a la plural memoria <br />"+
           "del porvenir, quise cantar la gloria <br /> "+
           "que hacia el azul erigen tus violines. <br /> "+
           "(Jorge Luis Borges, A Johannes Brahms)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Callan las cuerdas. <br />"+
           "La m"+String.fromCharCode(250)+
           "sica sab"+String.fromCharCode(237)+"a <br />"+
           "lo que yo siento. <br /> "+
           "(Jorge Luis Borges, Diecisiete Haiku)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="Tras una puerta entornada <br />"+
           "que da al patio de la parra, <br />"+
           "donde las noches oyeron <br /> "+
           "el amor de la guitarra. <br/> "+
           "(Jorge Luis Borges, Un Cuchillo En El Norte)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="I will climb thirty steps to my room, <br />"+
           "Lie on my bed; <br />"+
           "Let the music, the violin, cornet and drum <br /> "+
           "Drowse from my head. <br/> "+
           "(Philip Larkin, Ugly Sister)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="She found them, looking for something else, and stood <br />"+
           "Relearning how each frank submissive chord <br />"+
           "Had ushered in <br /> "+
           "Word after sprawling hyphenated word ... <br/> "+
           "(Philip Larkin, Love Songs in Age)"; j++;
myQuote[j]="The trumpet's voice, loud and authoritive, <br />"+
           "Draws me a moment to the lighted glass <br />"+
           "To watch the dancers - all under twenty-five - <br /> "+
           "Shifting intently, face to flushed face, <br/> "+
           "Solemnly on the beat of happiness. <br/> "+
           "(Philip Larkin, Reasons for Attendance)"; 


// find the length of the array of quotes
var totalQuotes=myQuote.length;
//document.write("Total"+totalQuotes);

// test for Firefox browser
//var hasInnerText = (document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].innerText != undefined) ? true : false;

function generateQuote(){
   // generate a random number
   var quoteNumber=Math.floor(Math.random()*totalQuotes);
   var quotepar = document.getElementById("quotePar");
   
   if (isNaN(quoteNumber)){
      iQuote = totalQuotes-1;}
   else{
      iQuote = quoteNumber;
   }
  
  // Uncomment the next line to force the last quote to appear (for testing)
  // iQuote = totalQuotes - 1;

  // Use innerHTML which allows linebreaks and is independent of browser
  quotepar.innerHTML = myQuote[iQuote];
  //alert("Quote number: "+iQuote);
}

// function for automatically updating quotes (set at 10 seconds)
function changeQuote() {
  intervalID = setInterval(generateQuote,13000)
}

function resetQuote(){
   quotepar.innerText=myQuote[0];
   //alert("Quote number: "+iQuote);
}