Musical Quotes Thread

[Contratrombone64]

Being inspired by the Jokes thread (and uninspired equally by the word association thread). I've got this idea for sharing amusing quotes (name the quote and name your source). So I'll start

Mr Adams has done for the arpeggio what McDonald's did for the hamburger
--New York Times on composer John Adams

 

[methodistgirl]

I have one. "Discover what your heart can hold."
judy tooley

 

[Contratrombone64]

Judy-which musician is that one about?

 

[Corno Dolce]

"Few Notes - But Much Music" - uttered by Shostakovich upon hearing the compositions of Georgii Sviridov.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Madam, you've got between your legs, an instrument capable of bringing pleasure to many. Yet you sit there and scratch it ...
---Sir Malcolm Sargent (I think) to a cellist in an Australian orchestra

 

[Corno Dolce]

Hi CT64,

That one is pretty vile :crazy::crazy::crazy:

Almost as bad as this one: "The sound of a harpsichord is like the sound of two skeletons copulating on a hot tin roof".

- Sir Thomas Beecham -


Cheers,

CD

 

[Kromme]

Madam, you've got between your legs, an instrument capable of bringing pleasure to many. Yet you sit there and scratch it ...
---Sir Malcolm Sargent (I think) to a cellist in an Australian orchestra

I think that was a Thomas Beecham quote CT64.Sargent was a rather kind man,Beecham was the dirty one.

 

[methodistgirl]

I usually say it and I'm a musician myself. Not all quotes come from such
famous people. I just say it from my own heart. Discover what your heart
can hold.
judy tooley

 

[Krummhorn]

"The main difference between a Violin and a Viola is that the Viola burns longer"
- Victor Borge

 

[Mat]

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music"
Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

[Contratrombone64]

You're right, it was Beecham!

 

[Kromme]

A tombstone read "Here lies a great organist and a wonderful musician." to which Beecham replied "What?Two man in a grave!!!"

 

[methodistgirl]

Express what's in your heart! My quote for the day.
judy tooley:angel:

 

[marval]

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet. Said by Niccolo Paganini.

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats. Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint Mitchigan.

 

[Mat]

[FONT=GARAMOND,GEORGIA,VERDANA,ARIAL]"One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
Bix Beiderbecke
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[Contratrombone64]

It ain't over until the fat lady sings ... (can't remember who said that)

In the case of the late Rita Hunter singing Broomholder in Sydney a few years ago, that certainly WAS the case.

 

[marval]

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

Sir Thomas Beecham on an unidentified soprano in Die Walkure

 

[methodistgirl]

Contra, I believe that saying belongs to just about everybody. I say
that myself and then start singing in spite. I'm a big girl myself.:grin:
judy tooley

 

[Contratrombone64]

No Judy, the quote was actually said by someone famous, whose name now escapes me, but I'll find out ... it's such a popular one that it's used now universally. It might have been Borge, but I just can't remember.

 

[methodistgirl]

Don't let the good life pass you by. This is a quote from one of my
musician friends here in madisonville.
judy tooley