Quotes by musicians about music

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: goodbar
Date: 02 Jan 06 - 11:25 PM

"they're just songs." -bob dylan

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 12:53 AM

John Prine on Songwriting
"Sometimes to see the big picture you need to get a very small frame."


Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Steve-o
Date: 03 Jan 06 - 07:31 PM

"I would love to have shared an apartment with Beethoven. Then, when someone remarked on the beauty of one of his compositions I could say, 'Yep, my roommate wrote it!'" (From the great Mason Williams)

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,Vic at work
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 02:07 PM

Quote to me from my brother on hearing folk music for the first time. [played by a UK folk luminary].
Tell him to **** off!
Why?
He's got no right to be that good!

Made my birthday complete.

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Jim McLean
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 05:18 PM

'Irish music has no beat, it has pulse' Joe Heaney, (paraphrased as I can't remember his exact words).

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 07:29 PM

Through ornamentation a singer gives dramatic structure to a song, and this requires an understanding of the 'story':

Different lines in a song are different, sung differently to other lines in a song, some verses tells you of the tragedy and other verses tells, why did it happen and they vary, like that the same way you sing any version of a song. There's an old saying that you start a song slowly, you build up a climax and come down gently. And in folk music, there is no beat, it's just a pulse (Heaney 78-15.1).

From here.

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Celtaddict
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 11:48 PM

"In ourselves we all contain an alternative universe."
weelittledrummer

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:08 AM

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi."

Professor Peter Schickele


Seamus

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:58 AM

You can take all the sincerity in show business and shove it into a flea's navel, and still have room left over for 3 caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

I don't know who said it!

Art

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,DannyC
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 02:43 PM

Heard thus one a month or so a ago doing a week's gigs in St. Louis:

Attributed to the Irish fiddler, Johnny Cronin, regarding the currently popular fiddling style that some call "East Clare":

"The music is lonesome enough. You needn't be pullin' on it all the time."

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 03:01 PM

Andre Previn "You're playing all the wrong notes!"
Eric Morecambe "I'm playing all the right notes! Not necessarily in the right order!"
From a sketch written by Eddie Braben.

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: michaelr
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 07:29 PM

"The music business is a shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves run rampant and good men die like dogs.

There is also a negative side." (Hunter S. Thompson, not a musician)


"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture." Don't know who said that.

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 08:47 PM

And Fighting for peace is like F****ing for virginity !

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,thurg
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 11:34 PM

"He was a fiddler and consequently a rogue." - Samuel Johnson

"Are you a musician or a guitar player?" - elderly, sophisticated gent, to myself, at a house party

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,thurg
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 11:42 PM

"It's no big deal; we've got four hundred other songs we can play." - Mick Jagger, explaining why he's submitting to the demand of the Chinese government that the Stones not perform Let's Spend the Night Together, Honky-Tonk Woman, etc. in China.

"#!@%!!xx#!!!" - Mick Jagger, when Ed Sullivan asked him not to sing the lyric "Let's spend the night together" on his show. (Guess the Stones didn't have any other songs back then).

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,Ron Davies
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 12:54 AM

This wasn't said by a musician, but may be germane anyway--and was said TO a musician.

Kris Kristofferson's mother-- to Kris in a letter (disowning him): "You are wasting your life on music nobody over the age of 14 ever listens to--and if they did, they wouldn't be anyone we'd want to know".

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: autolycus
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 03:01 AM

"I don't know anything about music. In my line of work, you don't have to."    Elvis Presley


"The cymbal clash at the climax of the slow movement of Bruckner's 7th Symphony is worth all 4 of Brahms' symphonies, with the 2 serenades thrown in."    Hogo Wolf


Letter to a critic. "Dear Sir, I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. I have your review before me. Shortly, it will be behind me."      Max Reger



    Ivor

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 03:05 AM

"You can't always get what you want

But if you try sometimes you might find

you get what you need"

Who said that that then?

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 03:50 AM

The Stones,Les.

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 05:30 AM

Lisa Loeb "I believe that music can connect people's hearts."

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,cookie
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 05:53 AM

Martin Simpson's definition of folk music: "Music that takes place either side of a raffle."

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Deskjet
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 07:43 AM

Might be slightly off-thread, but here's one I've developed over the years (at considerable cost).....
A guitar is only as good-looking as it sounds.

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: GUEST,Tom Bliss
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 07:47 AM

There's no such thing as bad music - only the wrong audience

(adapted from the weather/clothes one)

Subject: RE: Quotes by musicians about music
From: Bert
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 11:41 AM

Just read this one by our own Micca on his own thread.

" I could eat alphabet soup and crap better lyrics than most pop songs"