//store the quotations in arrays
quotes = new Array(11);
authors = new Array(11);
quotes[0] = "I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer!";
authors[0] = "Richard Strauss";
quotes[1] = "Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.";
authors[1] = "Gustav Mahler";
quotes[2] = "There are only twelve notes.  You must treat them carefully";
authors[2] = "Paul Hindemith";
quotes[3] = "My music is best understood by children and animals.";
authors[3] = "Igor Stravinsky";
quotes[4] = "At a rehearsal I let the orchestra play as they like.  At the concert I make them play as I like.";
authors[4] = "Thomas Beecham";
quotes[5] = "I am just an ordinary Czech musician.";
authors[5] = "Antonin Dvorak";
quotes[6] = "I would rather write 10,000 notes than one letter of the alphabet.";
authors[6] = "Ludwig van Beethoven";
quotes[7] = "Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.";
authors[7] = "Erik Satie";
quotes[8] = "Bruckner! He is my man!";
authors[8] = "Richard Wagner";
quotes[9] = "The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.";
authors[9] = "Arnold Bennett";
quotes[10] = "The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.";
authors[10] = "Felix Mendelssohn";

//calculate a random index
index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);

//display the quotation
//document.write("<DL>\n");
document.write("\"" + quotes[index] + "\"");
document.write(" - " + authors[index]);
//document.write("</DL>\n");

// go for ice cream

//done