Harpo Marx
was dead serious about music. Classical music filled his life. Music was an overwhelming passion which enriched his life. I was in my teens. He was older than I was, but he had great reverence for my knowledge. The way he is on screen, the way everyone knows him, is the way he played after I began teaching him. Harpo had individuality. I never could make him learn to read music.

Mildred Dilling

He played the right instrument. He was an angel. There was nobody like him, there never will be anybody like him. He was just simply wonderful. He never had a bad word for anybody... not like me. I at least occasionally say something. But Harpo... they don’t make that kind anymore.

Gummo Marx

"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where pimps and thieves run free and good men lie like dogs. There is also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson