Best things you ever heard anyone say about music

[Jode]

It doesn't have to be anyone famous, either. Matter of fact, it would be better if it wasn't. Here are a few of mine, to start. "I think every composer has about three really good ideas. I don't care if it's me or Beethoven." Jack Bruce "Tell us who you are in thirty-two bars." Joe Evans on improvisation "Make mens' music, not boys' noise." James Carter "There are two kinds of music - good music and bad music." Duke Ellington "The blues comes from what's in your heart, not what's in your teeth." Bleeding Gums Murphy "Got time to breathe, got time fer music." Briscoe Darling "...but simple in its beauty, like a Telecaster." Jacob Thompson

[Jode]

"If every school would hire two more music teachers, we could hire two fewer police officers." Kurt Masur "Without madness or fantasy, music's boring." John MacLaughlin "It's fun being fat and having lots o' records!" Bob Say "Melody and harmony are like a woman, feminine, and rhythm is like a man, masculine. And as long as they lay down together, the bed don't matter." Carlos Santana "Dude, whatever happened to country songs about whiskey drinkin' and ass kickin'?" Butthead

[michael saulnier]

"Turn that damn guitar down"... Voodoo Chile, Jimi Hendrix. guitplayer

[Hippie]

Those are great quotes by folks who love music. On the other side of the token, have you ever met someone who has zero interest in music? They never bought a record or a CD, listen to sports or talk radio and just never got the whole music thing? These types are an interesting phenomenon.

[Master Zap]

[quote]Make mens' music, not boys' noise." James Carter[/quote]Actually history has shown time and time again that you should make GIRLS MUSIC, not boys nor mens music. It's the music that in it's heyday is labeled as "yucky girls music" (e.g. ABBA) that is later heralded as the most classic and perfect of music ever made (e.g. ABBA). /Z

[Gato]

"Music is a cultural indicator" ME

[Abnorm]

A friend asked me in 1968: "How can you watch all these people having all this fun playing musical instruments and not want to get involved yourself?" So I finally got around to buying a guitar in 1974. :love:

[Jode]

James Carter was an old black guy who lived in my neighborhood in college. He used to come by and check our band out while we rehearsed. He had been a member in a clean-as-a-whistle doowop group in the fifties. What he meant by that comment was that your music should reflect a certain maturity, not that it was for the guys only. He meant that you should act like a grownup.

[strat0124]

"Great song", drunk chick, Virginia Beach at Hooplas, shore drive two weeks ago. :)

[ernest828]

I heard it said from Sting but I believe he was quiting from something else. "Music is a frame for silence." Basically silence is the source of all music. EJB

[Tedster]

[quote]Originally posted by Hippie: [b]Those are great quotes by folks who love music. On the other side of the token, have you ever met someone who has zero interest in music? They never bought a record or a CD, listen to sports or talk radio and just never got the whole music thing? These types are an interesting phenomenon.[/b][/quote]It takes all types to make the world go 'round. Take golf, for instance. Some folks are as passionate about golf as I am about music. I don't understand, but, then, I don't need to. As long as you have a passion of some sort. It's the ones who live their lives without a passion that are truly tragic. I think that there are a lot of people who are truly tone deaf in the world. It's nothing to be ashamed of, it's like being colorblind. That explains to me how some people don't get the music thing. I would rather doubt a colorblind person would get excited about certain types of art, either, for the same reason.

[jeffbayson]

I'm not the hugest fan of his music, but this quote stuck in my head. I'm paraphrasing from memory... "I want to write songs that people will still dance, fuck, and throw a Frisbee to years from now." - John Mellencamp

[jeffbayson]

Here's another one: You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. -- Frank Zappa

[jschmidt]

"If you make a mistake.... make sure that you play it again and play it LOUD... that way the audience will think that you did it on purpose" - Thelonius Monk "Talking about Music is like Dancing about Art" - Unknown "The truth is that anybody who ever blew 2 bars of anything worth listening to...knew exactly what he was doing" - Duke Ellington

[Hush]

Maude from Harold & Maude says: "Everyone should be able to make some kind of music, it's the cosmic dance" :) Marc

[Mark Zeger]

[quote]Originally posted by jschmidt: [b]"Talking about Music is like Dancing about Art" - Unknown [/b][/quote]"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." - Elvis Costello, from a Musician Magazine interview I like: "Do not fear mistakes. There are none." Miles

[Jode]

[quote]Originally posted by mzeger: [b] [quote]Originally posted by jschmidt: [b]"Talking about Music is like Dancing about Art" - Unknown [/b][/quote]"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." - Elvis Costello, from a Musician Magazine interview [/b][/quote]I always thought it was Laurie Anderson. Oh well. In the spirit of the Mellencamp quote: "There are three things you can do to jazz. Listen to it. Dance to it. Make love to it. If you can't do any of those things to it, there's something wrong with it." Papa Joe Jones

[Magpel]

"The blues is a chair." John Lennon.

[The Bear Jew]

"Ya'll's shit drops panties," the bassist from the band that opened for us last week. "Damn... I need a drink of water. I just got my ass kicked," some drunk guy at a one of our shows in Athens, GA.

[D. Gauss]

<> "turn it up man." -from cheesy 'Freedom Rock' late night TV cassette/lp commercial in early 90's or "it's official, the remaining dates on the troubled 2002 guns & roses tour are cancelled" -newscaster or "i can tie a cherry stem in a knot with just my tongue. want me to show you?" -some girl -d. gauss

[KHAN]

My brother, after my fourth remix : Hey! I didn't even puke this time" ! :eek: ! :eek:

[OctaveDr]

"is that a real song, or something that you made up?"

[fantasticsound]

Just to prove some people have WAY too much time on their hands, I present [url=http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm]this page.[/url] Saved me a bunch of time researching the, "Talking about music..." quote. :D

[Gulliver]

"Any music starts with the silence." (Don't remember who said that... some famous composer of the past, I guess.) "Silence IS music as well..." (Again, don't remember the name...) "Louder - better!" (a DJ)

[Tusker]

This one from Herbie Hancock (I think): "So I played a [i]wrong[/i] note, and then Miles played a note that made mine [i]right[/i], if you know what I mean...." Jerry

[Rick K.]

"...I'm glad they (the band) went on break..." Rick

[Tom Capasso]

[quote]Originally posted by OctaveDr: [b]"is that a real song, or something that you made up?"[/b][/quote]Great quote !! "Singing to God is like praying twice" Tom

[Botch.]

"That's our son?!?" -My Dad, to my Mom, the first time they heard me perform "Orange Blossom Special". :D

[Dr Teeth]

"when you dont know what are you playing, then you are playing jazz" The Legend Of 1900" Movie