Your favourite music-related quotations

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: winniemih
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 10:27 AM

From a James Taylor song, "The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time".

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: okthen
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 09:55 AM

On attending a Stockhausen concert, one of the great British conductors (probably Beacham) said "I believe I stepped in some once"

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: John Hardly
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 09:23 AM

"...he never knew how good he sang, It just made him whole"--Chapin

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST,Bill in Alabama
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 09:18 AM

I know only two tunes; one of them is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn't

U.S. Grant

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Long Firm Freddie (at work)
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 08:01 AM

Haven't got my blue clicky crib sheet wtih me, but this site's got some amusing stuff:

http://www.c4vct.com/kym/humor/musical.htm

LFF

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 07:25 AM

"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy." -- Ludwig van Beethoven

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Night Owl
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 02:39 AM

Dave(tam) posted this a while ago...having had some hard times recently..it stuck with me. "Life is like a shipwreck. Don't forget to SING in the lifeboats." (think I got it right.....Dave???)

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 02:27 AM

A Sydney Smith said: "All musical people seem to be happy. it is to them the engrossing pursuit; almost the only innocent and unpunished passion."

Singing alone on a hillside, or in an empty apartment picking up an instrument to play has prolonged many a life. (If no one said it before, they should have.)

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 12:42 AM

One in the hand is worth two of George Bush.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 11:55 PM

Then an angel touched the land
A golden harp held in his hand
I felt the love he was strumming
I felt the joy he was humming

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Pelrad
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 11:37 PM

My personal favorite is probably too cynical or depressing for your wall:

Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

- Paul Simon, (aka "The Great Depression"), from Rhythm of the Saints. I always liked it because it reminded me of all the times music could and did lift my spirits.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Midchuck
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 09:52 PM

I have seen the David,
Seen the Mona Lisa, too.
I have heard Doc Watson
Play "Columbus Stockade Blues"

- Guy Clark, Dublin Blues

Peter.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Sarah2
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 09:46 PM

(The credit for this really ought to go to "guinnessgirl," who includes it on all her e-mails to me...)

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson

Sarah

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Matt_R
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 09:32 PM

Better not listen to that, you may end up liking it.

--Stavinsky

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 09:20 PM

Maybe its not what you want, but its fitting for a practice room. A college friend was trying to work out a new riff of some sort or another and he'd try to do it, change it, try it again.....but it was never quite right. Finally, he swung the instrument around and took a real serious look at the fretboard and finally said,

"Well, its on there somewhere.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: kendall
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 09:04 PM

The man that hath no music in him
And is not moved by sweet concord of sound
Is fit for treasons, strategems and spoils
The motions of his spirit are as dull as Arebus
Let no such man be trusted. Wm. Shakespere

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Hobie
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 09:04 PM

the one that sticks out in my mind is one my mando player came up with,"I think we just uninvented music" Hobie

Subject: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Marion
Date: 07 Jan 01 - 08:48 PM

Hello all. I'm reorganizing and decorating the room where I practice, and I'm looking for some good material to put up on my walls. What are your favourite quotes about music?

They don't have to be inspirational - humourous and cynical are also welcome.

Related question: can anyone correct/identify this quote?: "People may say that I didn't sing well, but nobody can say that that I didn't sing."

Thanks, Marion