Musical Quotes Thread

[marval]

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

 

[intet_at_tabe]

" The conductor's task is really not unlike that of a prostitute; it consists of performing to make other people happy, no matter how you feel yourself -
and then passing the hat”, by Niels Viggo Bengtson.

 

[intet_at_tabe]

“A guy is influenced by hundreds of people and things, and all show up in his work. To fasten on any one or two is ridiculous. I will say one thing, though. Lennie Tristano’s early records impressed me tremendously. Tunes like ‘Tautology,’ ‘Marshmallow,’ and ‘Fishin’ Around.’ I heard the fellows in his group building their lines with a design and general structure that was different from anything I’d ever heard in jazz.”, by Bill Evans.

 

[marval]

Someone commented to Rudolph Bing, manager of the Metropolitan Opera, that "George Szell is his own worst enemy." "Not while I'm alive, he isn't!" said Bing.

 

[Contratrombone64]

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, a spinal cord would fully suffice.
---physicist Albert Einstein

 

[intet_at_tabe]

“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”, by Leonard Bernstein.

 

[marval]

"Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
William F. Buckley, Jr.

 

[Contratrombone64]

To be sung to the tune that begins the final movement of Beethoven's violin concerto

I live in ghettoes, and wear stilettos,
with bee-hive hair and lips painted pink.
I smile at strangers, ignore the dangers
then strut my stuff and give them a wink.
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(Oh I’m a sleaze, who likes to please…)
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I make an offer, to some old boffer
who’s easy prey and loaded with cash.
He takes his clothes off, begins to doze off –
I grab the dough and then make a dash!
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(Oh I’m a sleaze, who likes to please…)
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I’m quite successful, I’ve made a nestful –
they pay me well, I give them a hand.
My shade of lipstick, will stir their dipstick
but darling I’m not saying which brand!

*bows low to an adoring audience* (hopefully)

 

[intet_at_tabe]

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”, by Marcel Marceau.

 

[marval]

CT, I like it, very good.

I like the Marcel Marceau one Intet.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

to be sung to the tune that begins Mendelssohn's violin concerto​

In the garden I tarried, my true love for to see.​

(Her name is Ophelia Payne – she’s dumpy and awf’ly plain.)​

In she wandered and carried a box of KFC!​

There was chick-en or-ig-i-nal and hot and spicy too,​

and lots of grea-sy grav-y.​

As I watched her she gob-led up the lot - it made me sick –​

I joined the U.S. Nav-y!​

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"We don´t like the sound of their music, and guitar music is on the way out" - by the Decca Recording Company rejecting The Beatles 1962.

They probably regretted that statement a billion times.

 

[marval]

He who sings scares away his woes.
Cervantes

 

[marval]

Jacques Thibault, the violinist, was once handed an autograph book by a fan while in the greenroom after a concert. "There's not much room on this page," he said. "What shall I write?" Another violinist, standing by, offered the following helpful hint: "Write your repertoire."

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"“When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.”, by Aaron Copland.

 

[marval]

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
AAron Copland

 

[intet_at_tabe]

"I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to."- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

 

[marval]

When told that a soloist would need six fingers to perform his concerto, Arnold Schoenberg replied, "I can wait."

 

[Mat]

"My philosophy is to have a really good time and never to
let anything stop me from doing what I want to do."

- Michel Petrucciani -

 

[marval]

"Never look at the trombones it only encourages them."
Richard Strauss