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Author: Meri
Date: 2004-08-25 21:47
This is an offshoot of the stupid things you've said/heard musically...so what are some of the smart things you have said or heard related to music?
I'll start:
"If you're having a problem with your playing, it's usually air" (from my former teacher)
"If your barreljoint isn't soaked from about an hour of playing, you're not putting enough air through the instrument." (what I frequently tell my students)
"Think of the sound resonating inside your skull" (My pianist, to one of my students in a rehearsal, working on the Schumann Fantasy-Piece no. 1)
"You should get rid of about 10% of your students every year." (from a vocal teacher I know)
Meri
"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."
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2004-08-25 22:15
"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
-Sir Thomas Beecham
"Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics."
-Pietro Mascagni
"A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out."
-Ernest Newman
"A good composer does not imitate; he steals."
-Igor Stravinsky
"Composers shouldn't think too much — it interferes with their plagiarism."
-Howard Dietz
"The high note is not the only thing."
-Placido Domingo
And of course, the classic Mark Twain quote:
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
-Mark Twain
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-08-25 23:17
The basis of good tongueing is airflow.
99% of playing the clarinet is in your head.
Going back to basics will get you over hangups you didn't know you had.
Playing the clarinet is like looking after a box of puppies (honest, it is)
And of course.....
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2004-08-25 23:31
Hi,
From the great Dr. William Revelli of the University of Michigan to his marching band about rehearsals.
"To be on-time is to be late; to be early is to be on-time"
I tell this to all my students at the start of each semester.
HRL
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Author: psychotic lil clarinet girl (don't as
Date: 2004-08-25 23:48
ok... so my Band Director made a list of maxims...
1. Don't give excuses why you can't accomplish something. Instead, create a plan for your success...
2. Someone may be smarter, more talented, and better looking than you, but you can always out-work them...
3. Don't do anything that you would have to explain...
4. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your parents proud...
5. EARLY is on time; ON TIME is late; LATE is inexcusable...
6. Don't use drugs. EVER!
7. Winning is a by-product of excellence...
8. Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving...
9. Never miss a good opportunity to close your mouth...
10. Never Practice. Always PERFORM!
11. There is no whining in band!
12. You'd better bring your big kid pants (he usually says that when we're playing something hard)
Most of them have nothing to do with music, and yet it's good advice...
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-08-26 00:27
1. Buy a copy of Baermann III.
2. Put in on your music stand. Never remove it.
3. Play in it for 30 minutes a day - everyday - for the rest of your life
...GBK
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Author: Brandon
Date: 2004-08-26 00:31
Being a sports fan and former coach, I would certainly include many of the sayings of Coach Lombardi.
“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?” --- Vincent Lombardi
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.” --- Vincent Lombardi
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” --- Lombardi
and to add to what my college director used to say...
"To be early is to be on time. To be on time is late. To be late is to be dead."
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2004-08-26 00:57
Those who can...........do
Those who can't.........teach
Those who can''t teach.......teach gym
and those who can not accomplish any of the above......they become
administrators.
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Author: Camanda
Date: 2004-08-26 01:24
"My job is to become obsolete. That's what they taught me in college."
--My director's philosophy on his role in the Wind Ensemble
Amanda Cournoyer
URI Clarinet Ensemble, Bass Clarinet
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Author: GBK
Date: 2004-08-26 01:38
From Daniel Bonade:
"Go out in a rowboat with a box of mouthpieces, put a blindfold on and pick one out, throw the rest of them overboard, and go home and practice."
...GBK
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Author: Iacuras
Date: 2004-08-26 01:49
Here's one my Band Director says all the time.
"Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect"-Mr. Tim Libby.
Steve
Steve
"If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
"If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly."
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2004-08-26 01:53
A few more I found.
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
- Voltaire
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."
- Johann Sebastian Bach
(no truer words ever spoken. kind of reminds me of that thread we had a while back about how playing wind instruments can be digressed to just putting down the fingers and blowing)
"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball." - Gerald Early
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Author: Hank Lehrer
Date: 2004-08-26 10:19
Hi,
I know I had one chance already but this is just too true about music or any field that one might want to apply these words.
"Luck is the residue of design"
Branch Rickey - manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/branch_rickey.html
HRL
PS MaryBGood's list is quite excellent; some real gems. I really liked "You'd better bring your big kid pants."
PS2 But then there is "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it (Ferris Bueller, 1986)
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Author: 68fordfalcon
Date: 2004-08-26 14:51
"Isn't it interesting that the only thing that doesn't leave you in a performance is your level of preparation?"
-Mitchell Lurie
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Author: William
Date: 2004-08-26 21:02
Artie Shaw: "Benny (Goodman) plays the clarinet, I play music".
Vince Lombardi: "Strive for perfection, knowing that while it is not possible, in its pursuite, you will achieve excellance".
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Author: marcia
Date: 2004-08-26 21:46
Slight variation on a previous post:
Those who can.......................do.
Those who can't.....................teach.
Those who can't teach...........conduct.
I heard this at a bandfest weekend some years ago. I was sitting beside my conductor at the time. Even he laughed, partly because the person sharing this gem was also a conductor.
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Author: Rachel
Date: 2004-08-27 00:14
'Blow more air'- most of my teachers, also said by me to my students.
"Even if you aren't confident with the music, play it as though you were. It will sound better." said by me to my students.
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Author: Iacuras
Date: 2004-08-27 01:43
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."- Berthold Auerbach
Steve
Steve
"If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
"If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly."
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Author: Iacuras
Date: 2004-08-27 01:43
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."- Berthold Auerbach
Steve
Steve
"If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
"If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly."
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-08-27 04:07
"Don't Study Music with an As*hole", you'll loose interest and frustrate the As*hole.
;)
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Author: thechosenone
Date: 2004-08-27 15:39
"Practice it slowly"
"If you can't play it slow, you can't play it fast"
"Swab frequently, it's only your fault if you are playing that solo and you gurgle"
"Don't leave your clarinet in the cold"
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Author: John Morton
Date: 2004-08-27 18:13
"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom,
wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love,
love is not music, music is the best..."
- Frank Zappa
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Author: Woodwinder
Date: 2004-08-28 03:52
"I'll bet you $1 you can't play that passage." They get to play it as slow as they want, but it has to be right, and I really take their dollar if they mess it up, and give them mine if they get it right.
Also, "Are there any notes in that passage you don't know?" They say "no". I reply, "then get every note right".
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