Musical Quotes Thread

[marval]

Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
(1805-1875)

 

[Contratrombone64]

Margaret - that's a lovely quote from H.C. Andersen ... one of my favourite storytellers. I was lucky enough to visit his little house on the Island of Fyn, a couple of years back. It's been turned into a rather attractive museum (as happens).

 

[marval]

Yes CT, he was a very good story teller.

I had heard about the museum, must go sometime.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

It's gorgeous, and much easier for you to get to than me!! Odense (Odin's town), the city its located in, is also VERY attractive, gorgeous in fact.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.”, by Paul Whiteman.http://thinkexist.com/quotation/jazz_came_to_america_three_hundred_years_ago_in/324320.html

 

[marval]

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
Arthur Sullivan.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Margaret - that comment by Sir Arthur is quite famous and I love it, thanks for sharing.

 

[marval]

Yes, it's a good one. Good old Arthur Sullivan.


Margaret

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.", by Albert Einstein.

 

[marval]

"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow."
Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Do we have a "p" at bar 55? (concertmaster of Australian Youth Orchestra to then conductor, whose name escapes me, in around 1982). Maestro's response "Yes, but please wait until your scheduled break ..."

 

[marval]

LOL I like that one.


Too many pieces of music finish too long after the
end.
Igor Stravinsky

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.", by Ludwig van Beethoven, quoted by Bettina von Arnin, letter to Goethe, 1810.

 

[marval]

When a student asked Artur Schnabel what he charged for lessons, he stated the cost was $150 for each session. When the student responded that he couldn't afford that much, Schnabel countered with, "I also give $50 lessons, but they aren't very good."

 

[Contratrombone64]

Artur Schnabel's a classic, his Beethoven sonatas are sublime.

 

[marval]

Yes, he is good.


Margaret

 

[intet_at_tabe]

[SIZE=-1]No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. [/SIZE]​

[SIZE=-1]by W. H. Auden[/SIZE]​

 

[methodistgirl]

Days are numbers. Count the stars. We can only go so far. One day
you'll know who you are.-Allan Parson Project
judy tooley

 

[marval]

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent sounds that has ever existed.
Chick Corea.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Musical quote by Bill Graham, concert promoter extraordinaire, on The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan:


"When the [Rolling] Stones performed, every man felt like a man and every woman felt like a woman. And they all wanted to take the Stones home. I think with Dylan they wanted to give him a bowl of soup."