Musical Quotes Thread

[methodistgirl]

I play the organ like an instrument.-Virgil Fox
judy tooley

 

[Contratrombone64]

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong --- Ella Fitzgerald

 

[methodistgirl]

That sounds like some really good advice Contra.
judy tooley

 

[marval]

Already too loud - Bruno Walter at his first rehearsal with an American orchestra, as the players reached for their instruments.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Leo Slezak missing the swan boat in “Lohengrin” and asking, “When does the next swan leave?”

 

[marval]

Hi CT

Yes I love that one, very quick thinking.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

It's bad when they don't perform your operas-but when they do, it's far worse.
---composer Camille Saint-Saens to sometime composer Dame Ethel Smyth

 

[marval]

Sir Thomas Beecham was once asked if he had played any Stockhausen. "No," he replied, "but I have trodden in some."


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

LOL @ Margaret, that's a classic

 

[marval]

"I write music as a sow piddles."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

[amadpianist]

All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong

 

[the maestro]

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
William Pater

 

[marval]

"Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside."
--Ludwig van Beethoven

 

[Contratrombone64]

Beethoven apparently bit one of his students on the ear, but I don't know my source, it's in my memory. I'd not have like to be his student!

 

[marval]

Hi CT

By the sounds of it, I wouldn't want to be his student either.


Margaret

 

[marval]

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
Simon Rattle

 

[methodistgirl]

Creator help us make this journey of piece. _ a cherokee saying.
judy tooley

 

[marval]

"He has an enormously wide repertory. He can conduct anything, provided it's by Beethoven, Brahms or Wagner. He tried Debussy's La Mer once. It came out as Das Merde."
Anonymous Orchestra Member on George Szell

 

[Contratrombone64]

LOL @ margaret

 

[Muza]

All of those are truly great , keep 'em coming guys