What's Best Musical Quote?

[DonH50]

I am tired of the same old debates and bickering. Here's something maybe we can all contribute to:

What is your favorite audio/music saying?

I was going to throw out a couple of Klipsch or Carver quotes, but instead my sig line is my favorite... What's yours?

 

[Steve Williams]

"His master's voice"

 

[JackD201]

"A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence."

Leopold Stokowski

 

[fas42]

Sort of obvious, of course, but upon reflection "The Absolute Sound", pretty well nails it for me ...

Frank

 

[mauidan]

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."

Van Morrison

 

[garylkoh]

"Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help others… I am a servant of the music, and if I get caught up in ego, I’ll lose everything."

Eric Clapton

 

[garylkoh]

Am I allowed two favourites?

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it with music."

Gustav Mahler

 

[Whatmore]

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture

 

[DonH50]

Gary -- Of course! The more the merrier. There are some great quotes here! Here are some that I have used now and then, some only quasi-music-related (the practice quote I use with my trumpet students):

"After silence, that which best expresses the inexpressible, is music" - Aldous Huxley

"Practice doesn't necessarily make perfect, practice makes permanent." - Charles Hughes

Warner's First Law of Talent: "Just because you can do it doesn't mean you can do it for a living."

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." - Woody Allen

"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the road ahead." - Henry Ford

"You don't have to put out another's candle to make your own shine brighter." - William Adam

 

[naturephoto1]

Though not possibly what Don had in mind, but still very appropriate and particularly for people such as Amir, Steve, and myself:

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. - Ansel Adams

Rich

 

[microstrip]

Friedrich Nietzsche “Without music, life would be a mistake" - but I feel like the guy who says that La Gioconda is his preferred painting

 

[garylkoh]

Gary -- Of course! The more the merrier. There are some great quotes here! Here are some that I have used now and then, some only quasi-music-related (the practice quote I use with my trumpet students):

Here are a few more (besides those first two) that I live by - not necessarily music related:

"You don't get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You only get to choose how you are going to live. Now."
Joan Baez

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen but thinking what nobody has thought."
Albert Szent-Gyorgi

"Remember, 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

 

[DonH50]

Hey Rich,

Ansel is cool -- what makes you think only you three can relate to photographic examples? I did OK in the Nikon contest, many moons ago (still have the print; not sure about the negative). I bet a bunch of WBF folk are into pretty pictures (another expensive hooby for which I have no time!)

This is one thread that was designed to go off-track, with gusto and feeling!

Back to the quotes - Don

 

[fas42]

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." - Woody Allen

"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the road ahead." - Henry Ford

Those two are an excellent balanced pair to have in your back pocket ...

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen but thinking what nobody has thought."

When I've got a chance I might tattoo this on a couple of people's heads ...

Frank

 

[jazdoc]

Not sure they qualify as 'the best' quotes, but having recently read "Life", I'll offer a couple of gems from Keef:

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

 

[naturephoto1]

Hey Rich,

Ansel is cool -- what makes you think only you three can relate to photographic examples? I did OK in the Nikon contest, many moons ago (still have the print; not sure about the negative). I bet a bunch of WBF folk are into pretty pictures (another expensive hooby for which I have no time!)

This is one thread that was designed to go off-track, with gusto and feeling!

Back to the quotes - Don

Sorry Don,

I said particularly to people such as Amir, Steve, and myself; it was not intended to be interpreted or suggested that we were the only three.

Rich

 

[DonH50]

No worries Rish; I have a few of his books, somewhere...