Your favourite music-related quotations

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Leadfingers
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 11:12 AM

Ted !! 101 !!

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 11:56 AM

99 is the new 100, not 101!

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 02:07 PM

Information is not knowledge
Knowledge is not wisdom
Wisdom is not truth
Truth is not beauty
Beauty is not love
Love is not music
Music is THE BEST.
-- Frank Zappa

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 08:32 PM

A comment from a folk club I ran back in the late 70s.

A casual visitor, when asked if he wanted to perform, replied in an unmistakeable Welsh accent, "Of course I bloody do! Did you ever hear of a Welshman who couldn't sing?"

He'd made a basic error, as the young lady on the door that night was the sharpest heckler in Kent.

"MANY!", she replied, "BUT NEVER ONE THAT DIDN'T".

Don T.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: dwditty
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 09:27 PM

Those that hear not the music, think the dancers mad.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: number 6
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 10:21 PM

"I played the wrong, wrong notes" .... Thelonious Monk

sIx

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: harpmolly
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 10:29 PM

Two incredible Rilke poems in which music figures prominently:

"To Music"
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where all language
ends. You time
standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

Feelings for whom? O you the transformation
of feelings into what?--: into audible landscape.
You stranger: music. You heart-space
grown out of us. The deepest space in us,
which, rising above us, forces its way out,--
holy departure:
when the innermost point in us stands
outside, as the most practiced distance, as the other
side of the air:
pure,
boundless,
no longer habitable.

"Love-Song"
How shall I hold my soul, that it may not
Be touching yours? How shall I lift it then,
Above you to where other things are waiting?
Ah, gladly would I lodge it, all-forgot,
With some lost thing the dark is isolating,
On some remote and silent spot that, when
Your depths vibrate, is not itself vibrating.
You and me--all that lights upon us, though,
Brings us together like a fiddle-bow
Drawing one voice from two strings it glides along.
Across what instrument have we been spanned?
And what violinist holds us in his hand?
O sweetest song.

M

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST,Allen in Oz
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 10:39 PM

Sorcha

I think the quote re Carnegie Hall came from Yehoudi Menhouin. He asked a stranger one night during a snow storm how to get to Garnegie hall where he was to perform. The stranger looked at our man with the violin case and advised him to " Practice my boy, practice"!

Music is to speech
What poetry is to prose


AD 1943

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST,Texas Guest
Date: 06 Jul 06 - 10:46 PM

What a fun thread. I was very lucky several years,...no, make that -
many years ago - to have worked with Michael Smith who told me, "Once you learn how to play you have to learn how not to play."

Genie - I saw that Dylan show, too, and was reminded of "Lay Down Your Weary Tune," and a few others that need to be dusted off. Thinking again of Michael Smith, he and Barbara sang but a few songs that they didn't write; but, we did a bang-up version of "Sweet Marie"
and I still love that old song. Cheers.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Jul 06 - 05:03 PM

The definition of a gentleman;He who can play the piano accordion but refrains.
2.John Cage on your favourite music related quotations.........




3.Fred Trueman on Brahms and List.Idont know what the bloody hells going on out there.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST,Spike
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:04 PM

Himmel und Erde mussen vergehen Aber die Musika, aber die Musika, aber die Musika, bleibet bestehen.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:36 PM

No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets
But as truly loves on to the close
As the sunflower turns to her God when he sets
The same look which she turned when he rose.


Thomas Moore

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:46 PM

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

Good words for all of us to remember.

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:55 PM

Another one, this one from the great Irish Tenor, John McCormack, 1884-1945.

"I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung."

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: GUEST,Talkbone
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 05:58 PM

"There are two kinds of music; Good and Bad"

                - Charlie Mingus (?)

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 06:12 PM

"Music is so important. For without music, dancing looks really stupid."
    ~ Andy M. Stewart on a Silly Wizard concert video

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Elaine Green
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 09:52 PM

I've always liked this from novelist John Irving -

"Music is NEVER background music to a musician."

I also like the famous T-Bone Burnett quote, something to the effect that "You can sing about the light, or you can sing about what you see because of the light."

Subject: RE: Your favourite music-related quotations
From: Elaine Green
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 09:56 PM

In reading back through these, I can see that the one about the banjo in the kitchen simply cannot be topped!