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Author: Meri
Date: 2003-10-02 21:10
I've noticed that many musicians have developed their own quotes or sayings, especially those of us who teach. For example, my former teacher's favorite saying to students was probably "If you are having a problem with your playing, it's usually air". Mine is one that I have found myself telling almost every student I teach: "There is a difference between being flat and sounding in tune, and being in tune but sounding flat. The first I can live with; the second I cannot."
What are your personal music sayings/quotes?
Meri
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-10-02 21:16
In a "strange" way, I'd rather play the malady than the harmonica ! Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-10-02 21:20
"Every note's a solo".
(motto of the founding players of the "Riverdale School of Low Clarinet Playing", Parkdale Sr. High School in Riverdale, Maryland USA, ca. 1975 --- our response to the reputed "French School" and "German School" of clarinet playing)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-10-02 21:29
"You're only as good as the last piece you've played" ...GBK
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-10-02 22:29
"Wouldn't know the difference between his oboe or his brass"
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-10-03 00:07
"It's better to be a little sharp, than play out of tune"
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million dollars, it's not the money"
"Throw another log on the air-conditioner"
"You sound like Benny...Jack Benny!"
"You wouldn't believe what that sounded like from the back of the hall"
and my favorite:
"You're one in a million! In New York there are 10 of you"
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2003-10-03 04:10
He is a legend in his own mind. (Dedicated to that accordion player I get along with so well.)
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2003-10-03 10:51
"Honey, how many great Men do you suppose there are in the World?"
---"One less than you think, Dear."
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2003-10-03 11:55
Let's see:
"Sharp I can fix, flat needs a saw."
"I'm not flat, everyone else is sharp."
"When you guys play together, you sound like a band."
"Don't look at the conductor, it just encourages him."
"Did anyone notice those dynamic markings? TOO LOUD!"
"Two measures before rehersal mark A. Where's that?"
"Performance dress code? Fur jockstraps and Santa Hats, which makes me glad I sit in the front row."
Best
Rick
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-10-03 13:55
To my Big-Band leader who sometimes "accuses" me of being too loud on 3rd alto sax:
"Sorry, it's my youthful exuberance!" (I'm 66.)
Henry
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-10-03 14:07
From my old high school band director to the trumpet section: "If you're gonna make a mistake, make it big!".
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-10-03 15:12
"I'd rather play it slow, than half fast". Attributed to Pete Fountain's Marching Society, AND my current bass cl solo!! OK, Mark? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Tim K
Date: 2003-10-03 15:32
"It's harder to play pp... and not nearly as much fun."
The all-purpose comment: "That was certainly an unforgettable performance"
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-10-03 15:34
"When one hears such sounds, what can one say but... Salieri." (often said to me after a performance)
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2003-10-03 16:01
I had a big band director in college who, after a "train wreck", would give us a concerned look and say " Was anyone hurt?"
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Author: CharmOne
Date: 2003-10-03 16:01
"Your style sounds strong and powerful"
Ryan (My music teacher)
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2003-10-03 16:32
When the conductor nails you for missing an entry, "Sorry, would you like me to play that louder?"
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Author: n_hanson12
Date: 2003-10-04 02:41
Alex- "When in doubt, pull out" - I hear that one from my band director everyday. . .
When I rush ahead and finish early, "I beat you."
~Nicki
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2003-10-04 05:41
There are three kinds of musicians: Those who can count and those who can't.
Steve Epstein
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Author: Allie
Date: 2003-10-05 00:31
"When I rush ahead and finish early, 'I beat you.'"
Ditto!
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-10-05 00:49
"When you play the clarinet, you are doing something that 99.9% of the world cannot do" ...GBK
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Author: Keil
Date: 2003-10-05 04:18
"The majority of the world's musicians suck... don't be another statistic!"
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Author: won kim
Date: 2003-10-05 14:07
"One of the best things about the clarinet that makes everyone to like it is that it can be separated into small pieces..."
Stoltzman
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Author: wyatt
Date: 2003-10-05 14:24
lol:that brought a tear to my eye.
me: the song
lol: no the way you played it.0
bob gardner}ÜJ
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Author: William
Date: 2003-10-05 15:46
Some quotes from our local university wind ensemble conductor:
"Samuri articulation"
"Practicing--it's not a sign of weakness"
"There is life after sforzando"
"You have to ignor the conductor"
"Take no prisoners dynamic"
"It's not supposed to be the sound that momenarily stuns small animals"
"That's a Baskin and Robbins attack--you sort of scoop into it"
And mine (from the Duke):
"If it sounds good, it is good"
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-10-05 15:55
From my piano teacher:
"Don't waste your practice time playing what you do well already. Practice time is for the hard parts."
"Why are you scared of fortissimo? The notes don't bite ... often."
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2003-10-05 20:09
Some more collected in the last week:
"This piece is easy except for the hard parts."
"Were not sharp, the weather is just flat."
"I know you guys are better than you sound."
Best
Rick
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2003-10-06 10:01
"Ok, here we go, in for the attack..."
-Phillip Miechel, at a music camp this year, referring to Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet...
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Author: Clarinet Dad
Date: 2003-10-06 16:26
Gem from one of my son's conductors:
"You're playing in the Eastern European style...you're Russian (rushing)!!!"
"mp means mezzo piano...NOT MORE POWER!!!"
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-10-06 22:04
"And you're going to play the solo part".
- Said to whomever is next to me at the time.
US Army Japan Band
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Author: allencole
Date: 2003-10-08 10:30
A few that I hammer students with:
"Don't tap along to your playing---PLAY along to your TAPPING!"
"Don't sacrifice rhythm to get the right note. Sacrifice ANYTHING to get the right rhythm."
Allen Cole
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Author: Janey
Date: 2003-10-08 10:44
From my high school band director:
"Here's the United States and here's Korea....ummm....you're a little sharp"
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Author: rga
Date: 2003-10-08 16:48
I can't believe the venerable Eugene Ormandy was left out of this thread - do a web search on "Eugene Ormandy Quotes" and you'll find a number of web sites with quotes collected by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
My personal favorite: "That sounded wonderful. Were you playing?"
rga
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Author: Fred
Date: 2003-10-08 20:23
"Take it up an octave and leave it out."
- Charles A. "Pete" Wiley - a great university band director
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2003-10-09 04:56
Ok...so I didn't develop it...but I canNOT resist repeating it...even though it's a little risque
A now-famous conductor conducted our orchestra at Oberlin my senior year. We were preparing for a performance of Nielsen's 5th symphony, and the strings were having trouble. He was obviously troubled by their lack of accuracy during the fugal bit, and had this to say to them about 2 weeks before the concert:
"I give you my blood, my sweat, my SEMEN! What more do you want from me!"
Of course the back half of the orchestra fell off of their chairs trying not to laugh out loud. We, of course, knew our parts pretty well cold...
Katrina
p.s. Hope this doesn't violate any rules, but let me know if there's a problem, Mark or Glenn...it really DID happen...
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-10-10 01:13
From the repairers perspective:-
"That horn's got more leaks than Watergate"
Musical quotes from the mouth of the celebrated British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham are usually worth a laugh. The following is cited in Mortimer,H. (1981) On Brass, Alpha Books, P92.
"The unfortunate (music) librarian incurred Beechams' mild wrath
'What's your name?'
'Ball, Sir Thomas.'
'Ball, eh? How very singular.'
Beecham at rehearsal:
'This is wrong, woodwinds!'
Second oboe: 'Sorry Sir Thomas, I was a bar out.'
'What's a bar amongst so many friends....but you will, I hope keep in touch with me from time to time throughout the symphony?'"
Post Edited (2003-10-10 01:43)
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-10-10 01:25
Sir Thomas Beecham (attributed) to a female cellist. "Madam, you've got an instrument, between your legs, capable of bring pleasure to many thousands ... why sit there and just scratch it?". He was disgusting, by all counts.
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-10-10 01:46
Observed Saturday 4/10 2003, Brewery Hotel Newcastle.
A noted local piano accordion player was asking the audience if they new what his instrument was called. The trombone player in the band replied with the retort "its a banjo!". Enough said.
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Author: Dan1937
Date: 2003-10-10 14:03
"Play what's written, not what's rotten."
-- my former high school band & orchestra director
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2003-10-10 16:41
"I was actually in Kiev last year, and saw the Great Gate. It was just a little picket fence."
- Herb Couf
"Never sacrifice volume for quality."
- attributed to the U-Mich marching band.
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Author: lyn
Date: 2003-10-11 02:18
"Sometimes the note hears the attack coming, and retreats"....Niles Crane
(said when his father was practicing singing Oh Holy Night - they took the line out of the episode once it was in syndication)
~L
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Author: spyne
Date: 2003-10-11 03:48
I didn't make it up, but it was hanging in a theory room when I was at school, and I liked it:
"Don't B flat, Don't B sharp, just B natural."
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Author: lyn
Date: 2003-10-11 14:13
How about this?
"My life is just One Big Clarinet Lesson!"....Frasier Crane 
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2003-10-12 02:27
At our jazz band rehearsal this week we had a vocalist to sing a new arrangement with us. The directior had been reminding everyone to be very quiet to enable the vocalist to be heard.
As he prepared to give the downbeat he said "You're already too loud!"
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Author: Allie
Date: 2003-10-13 01:18
"Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes PERMANENT! So only perfect practice makes perfect!"
~My pastor ( Not in relation to music, but I figured it applied).
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