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Post by Ptarmigan on Mar 31, 2008 11:18:58 GMT
What are your favourite musical quotes?
Here are a few to get us started.
Cheers Dick
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Post by nickp on Mar 31, 2008 12:46:00 GMT
You name it, we maim it!
From (but not necessarily originally) Kellie Allen of "Wakin Up Tille" and the "Orpheus Supertones".
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Post by deleuran on Mar 31, 2008 15:45:20 GMT
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Post by Ptarmigan on Mar 31, 2008 16:06:53 GMT
That last one, by E. Y. Harburg, is interesting Jesper. At our Saturday night session, the one Lasse came to, we have found over the years that Music on it's own just doesn't do it & when we try music only, folks drift away, until sometimes nobody is left at the end of the night, except ourselves. On the other hand, when we sing lots of songs, we end up holding most of the audience all night. So it looks like folks enjoy the "feelings", to a point, but they really, really enjoy the "thoughts". Of course, it could just be that we don't actually PLAY very well! Cheers Dick
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Post by deleuran on Mar 31, 2008 21:26:40 GMT
Here is an opinion on the relationship between poetry, dance and music by the poet Ezra Pound:
An an opinion on the public:
And now we are moving in the direction of the more humorous quotes:
I have some more serious ones, but this must be enough for today. Just this last one from the famous film director Alfred Hitc**k. I hardly dare write his full name, as the "Dirty word filter" has been after me on this one before ;D ;D I hope the scottish members of this forum will not be offended by the following:
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Post by deleuran on Mar 31, 2008 21:53:43 GMT
Well, maybe just this one, that are very close to my own approach to music, and I preach it to everyone who want to listen, but sadly, too many won't.
He was a french composer (1870–1958)
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Post by Ptarmigan on Apr 1, 2008 7:09:22 GMT
Speaking of upsetting our Scottish members Jesper, how about this one:
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Post by deleuran on Apr 1, 2008 9:02:39 GMT
Yeah! ;D ;D Oh man! I love this thread. I love good quotes and have been collecting them for years. On many subjects, but oddly enough I have never collected any about music, but thanks to the internet, they are not hard to find Just one more before I go for lunch. It's a sad one, but true:
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Post by john on Apr 1, 2008 9:23:57 GMT
Music was doing allright until we Washboarded it up.
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Post by john on Apr 1, 2008 14:56:53 GMT
Let us call it music M. Davis
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Post by john on Apr 1, 2008 14:58:46 GMT
p.p ... pound plenty Louis Armstrong
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Post by john on Apr 1, 2008 15:00:15 GMT
I was doing very fine until the day I was born. Bizet
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Post by john on Apr 1, 2008 15:01:01 GMT
I cannot see the music for dots. Unknown
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Post by john on Apr 5, 2008 12:43:49 GMT
I hereby declare this mess for opened
Danish minister at a music instrument exhibition
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Post by deleuran on Apr 5, 2008 14:23:53 GMT
;D ;D He he he ;D That's a good one. Was it Brian? Our minister of culture. If that instrument exhibiton was a mess, I don't know what to call the thing between his ears.
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Post by john on Apr 5, 2008 18:53:22 GMT
any jerk can play the banjo, so why not you jim rosenstock
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Post by john on Apr 5, 2008 19:21:54 GMT
I will never eat 6 Big Macs again, before going on stage!
a Danish singer, collapsing during the first number at a folk festival
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Post by john on Apr 5, 2008 19:27:16 GMT
The acustic should be all right. The windows have been opened the whole day. an inn-keeper in Jutland
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Post by john on Apr 5, 2008 19:30:35 GMT
and after my last number we will have an intermission where you can go and stretch your legs!
A very very very famous Danish singer to an audience of people in wheel-chairs
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Post by john on Apr 6, 2008 19:09:22 GMT
When I was a boy I wanted to be a conductor. V. Borge
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