music quotes

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 13 Nov 23 - 08:59 AM

Music is the food of love..... try eating vinyl !!

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Mo the caller
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 04:05 AM

" The 'dots' aren't the music. the 'music' is what happens when you play the dots." (I'm probably misquoting David Oliver)

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Nov 23 - 07:31 AM

"Wagner has beautiful moments, but awful quarters of an hour." Rossini on Wagner

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 05:39 AM

From Crackerjack, c. 50 years ago: If music be the food of love, get your fish and chips off
my piano...

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 06:30 AM

"It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to..." --Don McLean when asked what American Pie meant.

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 07:43 AM

“Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands – and all you can do is scratch it.”

--Sir Thomas Beecham to a lady cellist

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 07:55 AM

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
--Igor Stravinsky

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 08:10 AM

One more for now from that bon vivant Jean Sibelius: "All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead."

(A unofficial one from Mrs Sibelius: "Jean, get out of that bloody pub! You have a symphony to finish!" I made that up, though the sentiment is accurate!)

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: G-Force
Date: 09 Nov 23 - 08:41 AM

Talking of Brahms, I believe he said that "the metronome is of no value".

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 12:59 AM

"[M]usic is socially meaningful not entirely but largely because it provides means by which people recognise identities and places, and the boundaries which separate them."

    -- Martin Stokes (King's College London)

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: GerryM
Date: 03 Nov 23 - 05:32 AM

Put another nickel in/In the nickelodeon/All I want is having you/And music, music, music.

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: GerryM
Date: 03 Nov 23 - 07:42 AM

"Wagner’s music, I have been informed, is really much better than it sounds." Bill Nye on Wagner. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/25/wagner-better/

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: GerryM
Date: 03 Nov 23 - 04:17 PM

And the doctor said to give him jug band music/It seems to make him feel just fine.

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: GerryM
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 05:01 PM

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: GerryM
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 05:12 PM

The quoteinvestigator site, https://quoteinvestigator.com/?s=music, is full of music quotes. Here are just a few – you can follow up on the attributions, if you are so inclined.

To Be True Music It Must Repeat the Thoughts and Aspirations of the People and the Time. My People Are Americans. My Time Is Today.

Poetry Is Music Written for the Human Voice.

Music Begins Where Language Ends.

All the Good Music’s Already Been Written By People With Wigs and Stuff On.

Music Is the Most Unpleasant and the Most Expensive of All Noises.

Music Itself Is Going To Become Like Running Water or Electricity.

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Sol
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 10:52 AM

“I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.”
? Tommy Cooper

Subject: RE: music quotes
From: Sol
Date: 09 Nov 23 - 07:55 AM

When the leader of a restaurant band spotted Oscar Wilde having a meal in the premises, he asked the waiter to give the poet a note that said "Is there anything you would like us to play?"
Mr Wilde allegedly responded with one word ..."Dominoes"