Fun And Interesting Classical Music Quotes
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I am soooooo going to use that quote when I post Poulenc's harpsichord concerto in my blog!
Manuel
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This was compiled by musicians from the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mendoza (Arg).
Freely translated by me.
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- you have married, the married ones stop studying!!... Didn't you have other thing to do? * (Carfi)
- Tonight in the concert do not follow me if you see I'm a little nervous * (Duci)
- I am not scared of You, but of the music.*(Duci)
- Last night I consulted it with the pillow, that tremolo is not to be played measured * (Gorelik)
- God! (watching towards the sky), how demanding I am today! * (Duci)
- That's pretty, how nice! I do not know if it is because my ear is kind today... * (Duci)
- Not even a real orchestra plays this as fast as we! (Tchaikovsky's 4th, 4th mov.) * (Duci)
- Pianissimo..., the most beautiful things of the life are said in a low tone of voice. * (Fontenla)
- There is mental laziness in you, and I'm getting exhausted! I want those chords without apoggiatura*(Fontenla)
-... I am going to pray that you sound as D Major! * (Blech)
(... to the woods, requesting that they play in tune a chord)
- Listen to yourselves, do not watch me, it must sound fantastic without me ! * (Rauss)
- It is clear that when I stop, we all stop. ISN'T IT? * (Fontenla)
- I am going to put a lines man on both sides of the orchestra so that they indicate when I STOP, conducting! * (Rauss)
- Look, dearest Professors, this is an organized chaos... * (Fontenla)
- The only one that unifies concepts here is me* (Merenzon)
- They pay me to conduct, and if you don't follow me, I feel like committing fraud against the Government! * (Scarabino)
- Don't breathe with the nose only, but also with your brain * (Ligia Amadio)
- You woods, ' tenuto! you breathe anywhere, you breathe everywhere.! * (Ligia Amadio)
- if they don't breathe... they die (4° French horn)
- Violins, playing out of tune will harm you! * (Carfi)
- Playing in tune is good for your health. * (Carfi)
- Take a real look at the flats and sharps, we're composing a lot. * (Izmirliev)
- "It was definitely worse... is not just out of tune, THEY ARE DIFFERENT NOTES " attenti "! the police is waiting for you outside *(A.Russo, to the first violins)
- What a problem, it's early in the morning and my hands and arms are to cold to conduct... but not my ears! * (Rauss)
- We should not play badly... not even in a free concert can anyone play bad. * (Duci)
- I also suffer for demanding you so much, I am human! * (Duci)
- It is my way to demand, excuse me. Even a kick, given with love, is tasty... * (Carfi)
- Gentlemen, I played this for Benito Mussolini! * (Carfi)
- Wagner was a really cool dude. * (Carfi)
4th french horn: - Maestro, are we going to play the 3rd movement?
Conductor: - What ? !
4th french horn: - Because I was told that when we play the 3rd mov of this work the audience falls asleep.
- Winds, I don't want to interrupt your nap, but when we reach the G mark, you need to start playing.
-Count! Count!, MONEY AND MEASURES! That's all is worth counting in this life.* (Izmirliev)
- In this phrase... I don't know where it leads to... those notes are not taking me anywhere. *(Renard)
- What I heard... was the pale reflection of the idea of sound. * (Fontenla)
-Next to my house lived a woman. She was married to a soldier, I think... She had many children, with different surnames each one... That's how the A sounds in this orchestra, gentlemen. * (Carfi)
- What's happening? I can't hear the wind section. An orchestra without winds is like a pizza... without sauce. * (Izmirliev)
- NO!... without delivery! (a trumpetist)
- Please take a piece of advice from me: "You're supposed to play together". (Ligia Amadio)
Clarinetist: each time we have to play a work like this one, I realise music is not for everybody, beginning with me.
Bassoon: the same for me...
(they listen to the orchestra while the others play)
Clarinet: My God; we sound like savages.
Clarinet: When do we get the next pay?
Bassoon: I don't know, but this time I will be ashamed.
Clarinet: Why did I took the last weekend off?, I should have stayed... studying.
Conductor: - Why is that this flute section sounds so bad? I played this with ___ (a famous flutist) and he had no problems.
Flutist: And we... played this with Karajan, and it sounded great.
- I really appreciate you dearest Maestro (to the flutist), and bothering you is not my intention, but you have a kind of "delay" in that 'little scale' you play.
- You should try to keep playing, even if my attention is somewhere else. (The conductor to the orchestra, trying to follow the soloist in Beethoven's 4th piano concerto)
- Somebody's violin has moved; or he is playing in a different tonality.
- It can sound very good, provided you all play it together.*(Scarabino) (!)
- Violins! fixed position... Forbear playing at "Fantasia"... *(Fontenla)
- That vibrato is as subtle as an elephant in a bazaar. (1st cello)
- Oboe, try to play p in this section. The oboe kills sopranos. *(Rauss)
- Music is the art of combining schedules. (Orchestra's Manager)
- Violins, even though nobody takes notice of it, do not improvise there. I do have the score in front of me. (Amadio, when playing a contemporary work).
- When this contemporary work ends, at the end of the adagio, please stay completely quiet, do not move; otherwise the audience will never know it has ended.
-Please keep silence. It's the only thing you can play well. * (Carfi)
-Please do not talk!, the acoustic is so bad that we can not hear the woods, the soloists, the p, nothing. But the voices... the voices are heard.
- Then why do not turn into a choir?
-Patricia, I'm confident with you, even though my mother told me not to trust women. (Maestro Carfi, to the piccolo before a concert)
-Gentlemen, Mr Beethoven was not a poofter, like many others I know... * (Carfi)
- I can't play this passage, the speed of the music beats the speed of my sight-reading.
Freely translated by me.
*****
- you have married, the married ones stop studying!!... Didn't you have other thing to do? * (Carfi)
- Tonight in the concert do not follow me if you see I'm a little nervous * (Duci)
- I am not scared of You, but of the music.*(Duci)
- Last night I consulted it with the pillow, that tremolo is not to be played measured * (Gorelik)
- God! (watching towards the sky), how demanding I am today! * (Duci)
- That's pretty, how nice! I do not know if it is because my ear is kind today... * (Duci)
- Not even a real orchestra plays this as fast as we! (Tchaikovsky's 4th, 4th mov.) * (Duci)
- Pianissimo..., the most beautiful things of the life are said in a low tone of voice. * (Fontenla)
- There is mental laziness in you, and I'm getting exhausted! I want those chords without apoggiatura*(Fontenla)
-... I am going to pray that you sound as D Major! * (Blech)
(... to the woods, requesting that they play in tune a chord)
- Listen to yourselves, do not watch me, it must sound fantastic without me ! * (Rauss)
- It is clear that when I stop, we all stop. ISN'T IT? * (Fontenla)
- I am going to put a lines man on both sides of the orchestra so that they indicate when I STOP, conducting! * (Rauss)
- Look, dearest Professors, this is an organized chaos... * (Fontenla)
- The only one that unifies concepts here is me* (Merenzon)
- They pay me to conduct, and if you don't follow me, I feel like committing fraud against the Government! * (Scarabino)
- Don't breathe with the nose only, but also with your brain * (Ligia Amadio)
- You woods, ' tenuto! you breathe anywhere, you breathe everywhere.! * (Ligia Amadio)
- if they don't breathe... they die (4° French horn)
- Violins, playing out of tune will harm you! * (Carfi)
- Playing in tune is good for your health. * (Carfi)
- Take a real look at the flats and sharps, we're composing a lot. * (Izmirliev)
- "It was definitely worse... is not just out of tune, THEY ARE DIFFERENT NOTES " attenti "! the police is waiting for you outside *(A.Russo, to the first violins)
- What a problem, it's early in the morning and my hands and arms are to cold to conduct... but not my ears! * (Rauss)
- We should not play badly... not even in a free concert can anyone play bad. * (Duci)
- I also suffer for demanding you so much, I am human! * (Duci)
- It is my way to demand, excuse me. Even a kick, given with love, is tasty... * (Carfi)
- Gentlemen, I played this for Benito Mussolini! * (Carfi)
- Wagner was a really cool dude. * (Carfi)
4th french horn: - Maestro, are we going to play the 3rd movement?
Conductor: - What ? !
4th french horn: - Because I was told that when we play the 3rd mov of this work the audience falls asleep.
- Winds, I don't want to interrupt your nap, but when we reach the G mark, you need to start playing.
-Count! Count!, MONEY AND MEASURES! That's all is worth counting in this life.* (Izmirliev)
- In this phrase... I don't know where it leads to... those notes are not taking me anywhere. *(Renard)
- What I heard... was the pale reflection of the idea of sound. * (Fontenla)
-Next to my house lived a woman. She was married to a soldier, I think... She had many children, with different surnames each one... That's how the A sounds in this orchestra, gentlemen. * (Carfi)
- What's happening? I can't hear the wind section. An orchestra without winds is like a pizza... without sauce. * (Izmirliev)
- NO!... without delivery! (a trumpetist)
- Please take a piece of advice from me: "You're supposed to play together". (Ligia Amadio)
Clarinetist: each time we have to play a work like this one, I realise music is not for everybody, beginning with me.
Bassoon: the same for me...
(they listen to the orchestra while the others play)
Clarinet: My God; we sound like savages.
Clarinet: When do we get the next pay?
Bassoon: I don't know, but this time I will be ashamed.
Clarinet: Why did I took the last weekend off?, I should have stayed... studying.
Conductor: - Why is that this flute section sounds so bad? I played this with ___ (a famous flutist) and he had no problems.
Flutist: And we... played this with Karajan, and it sounded great.
- I really appreciate you dearest Maestro (to the flutist), and bothering you is not my intention, but you have a kind of "delay" in that 'little scale' you play.
- You should try to keep playing, even if my attention is somewhere else. (The conductor to the orchestra, trying to follow the soloist in Beethoven's 4th piano concerto)
- Somebody's violin has moved; or he is playing in a different tonality.
- It can sound very good, provided you all play it together.*(Scarabino) (!)
- Violins! fixed position... Forbear playing at "Fantasia"... *(Fontenla)
- That vibrato is as subtle as an elephant in a bazaar. (1st cello)
- Oboe, try to play p in this section. The oboe kills sopranos. *(Rauss)
- Music is the art of combining schedules. (Orchestra's Manager)
- Violins, even though nobody takes notice of it, do not improvise there. I do have the score in front of me. (Amadio, when playing a contemporary work).
- When this contemporary work ends, at the end of the adagio, please stay completely quiet, do not move; otherwise the audience will never know it has ended.
-Please keep silence. It's the only thing you can play well. * (Carfi)
-Please do not talk!, the acoustic is so bad that we can not hear the woods, the soloists, the p, nothing. But the voices... the voices are heard.
- Then why do not turn into a choir?
-Patricia, I'm confident with you, even though my mother told me not to trust women. (Maestro Carfi, to the piccolo before a concert)
-Gentlemen, Mr Beethoven was not a poofter, like many others I know... * (Carfi)
- I can't play this passage, the speed of the music beats the speed of my sight-reading.
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"I believe richness is like love in the
theatres and novels. No matter how often one encounters it in all
shapes and sizes it never misses its target if effectively yielded."
Giacomo Meyerbeer.