Musical Quotes Thread

[Mat]

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Gustav Mahler
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[Kromme]

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That is the very essence of music i think.

 

[Mat]

So do I.


"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything"
Plato

 

[methodistgirl]

The american popular song goes on in all of us. Neil Diamond
judy tooley

 

[Deeru Piotr]

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
-Hunter S. Thompson

 

[marval]

"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way"

Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player

 

[Mat]

"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
J.S Bach

 

[methodistgirl]

If you don't think God doesn't have a good since of humor, look at
the person you sit with. From the show Hee Haw.
judy tooley

 

[marval]

"Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica."
Sir Thomas Beecham

 

[alexiakl]

Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train coming your way..
No Leaf Clover - Metallica

 

[marval]

"In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages."

Sir Thomas Beecham on Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Sir Thomas also said that the harpsichord's sound reminded him of a skeleton copulating on a tin roof ...

 

[methodistgirl]

Have you hugged you kid today? -Kentucky commercial
judy tooley

 

[marval]

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Claude Debussy

 

[Contratrombone64]

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

 

[marval]

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

Walter Damrosch on Aaron Copland

 

[Kromme]

"In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages."

Sir Thomas Beecham on Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.

This one is the greatest comment made on Bruckner's music.Hilarious.

 

[Mat]

"Play the music, not the instrument"
Author unknown

 

[marval]

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time.

Gioacchino Rossini

 

[Contratrombone64]

"Why reproach me? I didn't write the book. Another week's rehearsal with W.S.G. and I should have gone raving mad. I had already ordered some straw for my hair."

Sir Arthur Sullivan when questioned about The Grand Duke (the final collaboration with Gilbert).