quotes about music

[jessybean]

anyone know any good quotes about music [i.e. not from songs] but actually about msuic itself?

[Ethel]

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[heathfield]

Beecham, asked if he'd ever conducted any music by Stockhausen, replied, "No. But I trod in some once!"

[naz_nomad]

We got both kinds of music here ... country, and western ...

[gen2]

If music be the food of love, play on.
by William Shakespeare

[shammydodger]

"Music is the silence between the notes." - Claude Debussy. Crikey, pot must've been around earlier than I thought!

[caddis]

andre previn: you're playing the wrong notes
eric morecambe: i'm playing the right notes...but not necessarily in the right order

[saxy_jag]

"You're all playing the right notes, and in the right order. You're just not playing them at the right time." - Dave Coble, my band director, last night.

[saxy_jag]

"Playing the Blues ain't supposed to make you feel better. It's supposed to make everyone else feel bad." - Bleeding Gums Murphy, the Simpsons.

[snapdarlich]

ARGH! I can't find the exact quote...

But from the back of a CD(I think it was the cello suites), the legendary cellist, Mischa Maisky said...

'People say Bach wasn't a romantic composer. Bach had 20 children and you tell me he wasn't romantic?'

Brilliant!

[stefos]

I can play two tunes -one's Yankee Doodle and the other one isn't

[clairey-s]

http://quotes.prolix.nu/Music/
some good ones nearer the bottom
xx

[XxHeatherxX]

Kidnap the Sandy Claws, lock him up real tight, throw away the key and then turn off all the lights!!

[abelmanmoth]

"There are no mistakes"


Miles Davis

[barneysdad]

if music is the food of love,why don't rabbits play banjoes!

[waltadasilva]

Its not about music....

"There are three types of people when it comes to maths - those who can do it and those who can't"

[jessybean]

i dont get it..

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