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Author: tebby
Date: 2002-04-05 01:16
know of any related to music?
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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2002-04-05 03:34
Never let anyone use your mouthpiece. You don't know where they have been.
me
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Author: Lindsey Ondrey
Date: 2002-04-05 03:42
These are some of my favorites.
"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence of it in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Shakespeare (also accredited to Victor Hugo-- not sure which is correct in this case)
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
-- William Congreve
"You are the music while the music lasts."
-- T. S. Eliot
"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
-- George Eliot
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."
- William Shakespeare 1564-1616: Twelfth Night (1601)
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Author: Lindsey Ondrey
Date: 2002-04-05 03:52
Poetry, painting and music, properly mixed, have an overpowering fascination for the normal man, and when he sees and hears them produced in a perfect proportion he feels he is near the God who created the poet, the painter, and the musician.
-John P. Souza
And my absolute favorite *by* a Musician about life....
"..for a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. THis perpective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination..."
-Souza
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2002-04-05 04:20
With tongue firmly planted in cheek, here are a few. I will start with one from one of my favorite musicians:
I hate music, especially when it's played.
Jimmy Durante
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Sir Thomas Beecham
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Aaron Copland
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Twelfth Night", Act 1 scene 1
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein
I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant.
Leona Helmsley, 1990, refuting charges that her lifestyle was excessive
There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Isaac Stern
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas.
S.J. Perelman (1904 - 1979)
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or faraway.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Author: Chrissie
Date: 2002-04-05 05:55
Now and then pleasure rises...from something that excites our senses with a hidden but unmistakable force, and attracts them to itself. Such is the power of music.
-Utopia
Music should never be harmless.
-Robbie Robertson
Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
-Geoffrey Latham
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
- Robert Strauss on conducting
Music is a moral law- it gives wings to the mind, A soul to the universe, Flight to the imagination, A charm to sadness, A life to everything.
- Plato
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
-Thomas Carlyle
Chrissie
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Author: Jamie Talbot
Date: 2002-04-05 06:57
The British public don,t like music but they absolutely
love the noise it makes-Thomas Beecham
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Author: beejay
Date: 2002-04-05 08:38
Other analysts, in explaining the effects of music on the listener, see in music a kind of language which by its peculiar means of expression conveys some meaning, whatever this meaning may he. But the difference is that in a spoken or written language each verbal expression used has unchangeable connotations. while in music each component of an audible form can be understood and interpreted emotionally in many different ways. The word "river" always means a stream of flowing water, but a certain phrase in C minor may cause one listener to experience some feeling of sadness, while to another listener the same phrase means something entirely different. This discrepancy in interpretation will be particularly obvious in the case of music that is unfamiliar to the recipient. Those who have had some experience with oriental people and their music will confirm this observation. In hearing oriental music for the first time, the Western listener usually cannot detect any musical significance in it -- which it would have, if music was an internationally recognized and understandable language. The strangeness of its sounds will strike him as funny, even ridiculous, and the only emotional urge he will feel will be a desire to laugh heartily. But this same piece may induce the initiated to feel sad, pathetic, heroic, or whatnot. We do not even need to go so far away into foreign regions; sometimes in southern countries church music can be heard which for the visitor from the North has the most exhilarating effect, although it may be intended as funeral music and will have the proper effect of such on the native listener. On the other hand, there are people in whom Gilbert and Sullivan operettas arouse only feelings of boundless desolation and despair.
Paul Hindemith. A Composer's World
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Author: William
Date: 2002-04-05 14:31
"If it sounds good, it is good!"
Duke Ellington, composer, band leader and musician
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-04-05 14:48
CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with
cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two clarionets.
-- Ambrose Bierce
I was strong on the need (in 1888) for signed criticism written in the first person instead of the journalist 'we'; but as I then had no name worth signing, and GBS meant nothing to the public, I had to invent a fantastic personality with something like a foreign title. I thought of Count di Luna (from Il Travatore) but finally changed it for Corno di Bassetto, as it sounded like a foreign title, and nobody knew what a corno di bassetto was.
As a matter of fact the corno di bassetto is not a foreigner with a title but a musical instrument called in English the basset horn. It is a wretched instrument, now completely snuffed out for general use by the bass clarinet. It would be forgotten and unplayed if it were not that Mozart has scored for it in his Requiem, evidently because its peculiar watery meloncholy and the total absence of any richness of passion in its tone is just the thing for a funeral. Mendelssohn wrote some chamber music for it, presumably to oblige somebody who played it; and it is kept alive by these works and by our Mr Whall. If I had ever heard a note of it in 1888 I would not have selected it for a character which I intended to be sparkling. The devil himself could not make a basset horn sparkle.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Michael Bryant's page http://www.bryant14.demon.co.uk/ has much, much more. It seems to be off-line at the moment, but if you do a Google search on "shaw corno watery" (without the quotes), you can get to the cached version.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw (no relation whatever to GBS)
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Author: Wendy Lange
Date: 2002-04-05 17:27
From an old German Opera House:
BACH gave us God's word,
MOZART gave us God's laughter,
BEETHOVEN gave us God's fire,
GOD gave us MUSIC that we might pray without words.
Not technically from a famous writer, but one of my favorites, especially the last line.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-04-07 20:56
"The origin of the clarinet is unknown. It has been found in primitive civilizations, but only in recent layers, and the question of whether it migrated from a lower to a higher civilization, or from a higher to a lower one, is not yet decided."
Curt Sachs: The History of Musical Instruments 1940
(after having heard some of my beginning students - I'm still not sure)...GBK
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2002-04-08 10:28
Mozart,1935
Poet, be seated at the piano.
Play the present, its hoo-hoo-hoo,
Its shoo-shoo-shoo, its ric-a-ric,
Its envious cachinnation.
If they throw stones upon the roof
While you practice arpeggios,
It is because they carry down the stairs
A body in rags.
Be seated at the piano.
That lucid souvenir of the past,
The divertimento;
That airy dream of the future,
The unclouded concerto. . .
Strike the piercing chord.
Be thou the voice,
Not you. Be thou, be thou
The voice of angry fear,
The voice of this besieging pain.
Be thou that wintry sound
As of the great wind howling,
By which sorrow is released,
Dismissed, absolved
In a starry placating.
We may return to Mozart.
He was young, and we, we are old.
The snow is falling
And the streets are full of cries.
Be seated,thou.
Wallace Stevens EIDEAS OF ORDER
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Author: William Hughes
Date: 2002-04-10 21:48
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. - John Philip Sousa
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Author: David Dow symphony NB
Date: 2002-04-24 14:30
Stravinsky: Music should be felt not taught.
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Author: David Dow symphony NB
Date: 2002-04-25 01:53
What was oft thought but never so well expressed.
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