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Your favourite music-related quotations
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 10 Jan 01 - 10:56 AM Coincidentally, last Friday's issue of The Bookseller has just landed on my desk ( I only read it for the knitting patterns, your honour): The cover has a quote related to a book by Louise Voss (To be Someone, since you asked): "No matter how the lyrics of your life are written, how you play the song is up to you". The blurb says the book moves track by track throught the music of our lives and has a 21-track Virgin CD to go with it, and promised full-cover ads "throughout the women's press". RtS (the music looks 20 years too young for me!) |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: mousethief Date: 10 Jan 01 - 11:55 AM The women have a press? Only one? Hardly seems fair. They should get as many as the men have. Maybe more. My wife made me say this. Alex |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,dave auty Date: 10 Jan 01 - 12:13 PM 'Once its' gone its' in the air!' (Eric Dolphy) |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: LR Mole Date: 10 Jan 01 - 12:14 PM "Protest they say protest it is your diamond duty; "Ah, but in such an ugly time the only true protest is beauty." --Phil Ochs |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,DrWord Date: 10 Jan 01 - 02:57 PM |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,DrWord Date: 10 Jan 01 - 02:59 PM oops :) Frank Zappa: "There is NOTHING quite like the stink of a too-loud electric guitar." amen |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Marion Date: 14 Jan 01 - 07:30 PM Thanks all. I especially like "Well, it's on there somewhere," and "in such an ugly time the only true protest is beauty." And that was a fascinating article linked to about Florence Foster Jenkins. A friend of mine once said: "It's amazing what you can do when you don't know that you can't." Marion |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 15 Jan 01 - 03:43 AM Here's one from Brit/Danish comedienne, Sandi Toksvig: "I quite like modent music:garage music, yard music, in fact the further from the house, the better I like it." RtS |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 15 Jan 01 - 06:06 AM Always proof-read! That should have been "modern" not "modent". RtS |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 15 Jan 01 - 07:06 AM My personal favorite: "Music expresses what cannot be put into words and yet cannot remain unsaid" Victor Hugo Was it Satchmo who said, "If it sounds good, it is good.." |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 15 Jan 01 - 09:14 AM I've searched in vain for a quote by Albert Schweitzer. As I remember it, when someone asked him how he could stand having to play on an old, out-of-tune upright piano in the middle of Africa, he replied something to the effect that when you're playing Chopin, the instrument doesn't matter. Could be that I just rembered it wrong, but I don't think I completely made it up. Anybody else heard of this one? |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 15 Jan 01 - 10:05 AM "There are only two kinds of notes: Right notes and wrong notes. I try to get some of each into every song I sing." Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: R! Date: 15 Jan 01 - 11:04 AM I'm listening to Florence right now and I'm amazed. A singer with whom I can identify! If Flo was still alive we could have sung together. The (dis)harmony of our melliferous voices would bring tears to the eyes of all who heard us. I have a new muse. And I'm bookmarking that site. Reen |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Marion Date: 17 Jan 01 - 10:14 PM This is going up on my wall too: "You need an obsessive personality. If music is simply an interest you'd like to add to your already crowded life, you can have a great time singing and playing with friends. On the other hand, if your goal is to stand out among musicians, be in demand for sessions and get the big hand for an instrumental break, you need to be obsessive. Very few "great ones" in any field are well balanced personalities. They do what they do pretty much to the exclusion of everything else and they do that not by design but because they can't help it. " (Mark Clark)
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Deckman Date: 17 Jan 01 - 10:41 PM How about this rather inelegant thought, but clear ... "TUNE IT OR DIE!" |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Tattie Bogle Date: 18 Jan 01 - 08:00 PM "No such tune as a new tune" - don't know who said that, but look at all the folk and "classical" tunes that get recycled. Bernard, I thought it was Beecham not Rubberbrolly who said what he did about the lady with the cello! Tattie B |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: John Routledge Date: 18 Jan 01 - 09:07 PM "Well it was three o'clock in the morning when my baby staggered in the door.That did it!" Lonnie Johnson singing I think. GBroon
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,dick greenhaus Date: 19 Jan 01 - 03:09 PM Well, there's: "Music! What a marvelous art, but what a wretched profession!" (Bizet) or "Wagner's music is much better than it sounds" (Mark Twain) or "At least it doesn't smell" (Samuel Johnson, on bagpipes)
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Tattie Bogle Date: 19 Jan 01 - 05:06 PM And "the devil has the best tunes" - by Lucifer, beelzebub, Old Nick or whtever else you like to call him! |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Peter K (Fionn) Date: 19 Jan 01 - 08:21 PM George Bernard Shaw, who was a music critic before hitting hte bigtime with his plays, once said the single word: "Press." He was walking past a street busker. Not music, but appropriate for a music room - that great golfer of the 50s (Ben Hogan? or similar name) said: "Sure I'm lucky. The harder I practice,t he luckier I get." |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: John Routledge Date: 19 Jan 01 - 09:56 PM Burke There is hope for us all. Compulsory listening. Cant wait to hear Reen on Paltalk. Regards GB |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Hollowfox Date: 24 Jan 01 - 06:01 PM I don't want to be the second Caruso, I want to be the first Martinelli. Giovanni Martinelli, a very good operatic tenor. |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Justa Picker Date: 24 Jan 01 - 06:08 PM I guess this one would apply. |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: cowboypoet Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:59 PM "Maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song, "And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong?" - Townes Van Zandt |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Bill D Date: 24 Jan 01 - 08:48 PM "since it is no better, I'm glad it is no worse.." ..(he lost his girlfriend, but still has "brandy in my bottle, and money in my purse") from "I've Rambled This Country, Both Earlye and Late" |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:06 PM "Ahhh, my pretty vun, ve could make ze beautifool musik togezzair!" Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:26 PM Tattie Bogle said: "And 'the devil has the best tunes' - by Lucifer, beelzebub, Old Nick or whtever else you like to call him! " Actually the quote and attribution are as follows: "He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes." Sermons. From E. W. Broome, the Reverend Rowland Hill. Hill lived from 1744 to 1833. This from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Fourteenth Edition, Copyright 1968. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: john c Date: 25 Jan 01 - 01:57 AM Robin Williamson: "Music is an eternal power that comes from the beginning of time and goes on to the end of time and musicians get allowed to play it" Me(for all German scholars): "Jazz macht krank" And "Close enough for folk" when that e-string just wont sound right! |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GMT Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:13 AM Andre Previn (Mr. Privet) turns to Eric Morecambe (who is on piano) and says "Your playing all the wrong notes". Eric replies: "I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order" Gary |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: KathWestra Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:48 PM Chekov: "Music unlocks the frozen rivers of the heart."
Dave Webber: "After love, I ask of life |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,petr Date: 25 Jan 01 - 08:07 PM I dont normally sing, and when I do, its not normally. playing fiddle tunes is like a merry go round that exists outside our dimension and every once in a while we get on and ride. (another one not music related but on the availability of single men in Alaska. To a single woman in Alaska the odds are good, but the goods are odd. |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: chordstrangler Date: 25 Jan 01 - 08:32 PM what about: " An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world requires that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English speaking audiences"....Edith Wharton. Or- "Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast - but I'd try a revolver first"......Josh Billings. |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Bardford Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:20 AM I found this in "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quoatations", which I picked up at Chapters for 5 dollars (Canadian, so 42 cents US): Musick is the thing of the world that I love most. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) BTW - Mary in Kentucky, there was only one quote by Albert Schweitzer in this 400 page book, and it wasn't about Chopin. Here's another one: Minuentur atrae Carmine curae Dark worries will be lessened by song. Horace Cheers, Bardford |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Matt_R Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:22 AM Shut the f*** up and get a guitar! --Noel Gallagher (about teenie bopper music) |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Brian Hoskin Date: 26 Jan 01 - 03:48 AM Here's one for those of you not overly keen on analysing things: "Musicologists are to musicians what ornithologists are to birds" Charles Rosen (I think)
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: MikeofNorthumbria Date: 26 Jan 01 - 08:53 AM "If we do not sing our songs, the land will die" Said by an Australian Aborigine to Bruce Chatwin, and quoted in the latter's book "Songlines" Alternatively, from John Dryden's "Ode on St Cecilia's Day", a vision of the end of the universe, when: "The dead shall live, the living die/ And music shall untune the sky." So, treat that music with respect, it's powerful stuff. Wassail!
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:41 AM GUEST Brian Hoskin said: "Here's one for those of you not overly keen on analysing things: 'Musicologists are to musicians what ornithologists are to birds.' Charles Rosen (I think)" This reminds me of the quote (which could easily be applied to music): "Art critics are to art as astronomers are to the stars. They can tell you what the stars are doing, but they can't tell the stars what to do." Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,cheryl, guest Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:48 AM Emma Goldman? early feminist -- "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." To me, music and dancing are one and the same. |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Brian Hoskin Date: 26 Jan 01 - 11:15 AM My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense,as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness - That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. John Keats Ode to a Nightingale "Not the voices of animals but their entrails are important to us, and the animal to which music is most indebted is not the nightingale but the sheep" Eduard Hanslick On the Musically Beautiful |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST Date: 28 Jan 01 - 09:28 AM |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: FrankieB Date: 28 Jan 01 - 03:24 PM "The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like the old folks singing in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago." Louis Armstrong |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Jennifer Date: 29 Jan 01 - 01:00 AM "It's not what ya say that counts, it's what ya don't say.". . .Count Basie on Jazz And I can't imagine that no one mentioned the slightly "it's a guy thing" point of view-- " A pretty girl is like a melody . . ." |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Marion Date: 02 Feb 01 - 06:27 PM Here's another prospect, but I can't decide if it's true or not. What do you think? "Practice doesn't make perfect, nor is it supposed to. Practice is about increasing your repertoire of ways to recover from your mistakes." Marion |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: harpo Date: 02 Feb 01 - 06:46 PM The best advice I ever got Shortly after moving to Woodstock New York in the early 70's, I was playing with the Jerry More Work Band at The Joyous Lake ( a great local club) After finishing for the night, Paul Butterfield came into the dressing room and introduced himself to me. I was thrilled to say the least! He then said ,"kid you're really good, but you play too @**@in' much!" I was devastated. I walked around for days thinking about killing myself, or him. However it dawned on me that Paul was doing me a great favor. A harp player is an addition to any band and as such, needs to enhance the music not dominate it. So if you will, allow me to pass this great advice along. Paul and I became great friends and I miss him. |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Hawker Date: 02 Feb 01 - 07:14 PM How about these two I have on fridge magnets in my kitchen.....(well it's a sensible place to keep a fridge)..... DANCE as though no-one is watching LOVE as though you have never been hurt SING as though no-one can hear you and LIVE as though heaven is on Earth. or Where word fail....Music speaks I also thought of the Dave Webber one already listed then there is this poem that a childhood sweetheart sent me many yaers ago which I nevcer forgot..... There was a man with a tongue of wood who loved to sing In truth, it was lamentable..... But there was one who heard the clip clatter of the tongue of wood And knew what the singer wished to say. With that the singer was content Profoud! especially for a lovesick fourteen year old! Hawks |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: pastorpest Date: 02 Feb 01 - 11:06 PM I could never spell his name and I never liked his philosophy but Neischte said: "Life without music would be a mistake." At least he got something right. |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: Genie Date: 06 Jul 06 - 02:10 AM Spaw, thanks for posting the lyrics to "Lay Down Your Weary Song." I was watching the Scorcese documentary "No Direction Home" tonight and Part II ended with that song. Somehow, even though I became a Dylan fan back about 1961-2, I managed to miss that song. I think it's one of his most singable ones and I love the lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST Date: 06 Jul 06 - 10:24 AM Where this old stuff been? |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Joe D Date: 06 Jul 06 - 10:25 AM Lurkin' |
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Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations From: GUEST,Chis Date: 06 Jul 06 - 10:25 AM Yikes! |
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