Favorite Quotes About Music

(Probably been done before, search engine stinks, blah blah blah)


Anyway, I was looking at some stuff about Kraftwerk and saw this. They were asked:

- "Do you listen to other music?"

To which one of them replied...

- "No. Maybe when we wander round. Sometimes when we go out to dance. Sometimes radio. I don't have a stereo at home. We listen to silence. We listen to fictitious music in our heaRAB. Think music."


I thought about it for a minute and decided... that is completely awesome. I went to look for more music quotes, and came across another that just seemed perfectly fitting for rabroad users:


“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
-Sergei Rachmaninov



Write down your favorites if you like.
 
"People ask me, ‘what was the best year for the music?’ I always say, this year is the best year for music. Prior to that it was the previous year"
John Peel
 
"Don’t feel bad that you don’t have it, just download it. It looks kind of like an album because we had an artist make us this cool album cover because we were shopping it to record labels."
 
The press quotes on the inside of my friend's vinyl copy of 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' are hilarious and awesome, and makes me wish I was at the Plastic Exploding Inevitable shows, because the critics sound bewildered, in love, frustrated and sort of scared at the same time. All of them together paint quite a picture of the critical reaction that the band had.


"A Three-ring psychosis that assaults the senses with the sights and sounRAB of the total environment syndrome ... Discordant music, throbbing cadences, pulsating tempo."
--Variety

"Not since the Titanic ran into that iceberg has there been such a collision as when Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable burst upon the audiences at The Trip Tuesday. For once a Happening really happened, and it took Warhol to come out from New York to show how it's done. "
--Los Angeles Times

This is the best one:


"Warhol's brutal asserablage --non-stop horror show. He has indeed put together a total environment, but it is an asserablage that actually vibrates with menace, cynicism, and perversion. To experience it is to be brutalized, helpless. --you're in any kind of horror you want to imagine, from police state to mad house. Eventually the reverberations in your ears stop. But what do you do with what you still hear in your brain ? The flowers of evil are in full bloom with the Exploding Plastic Inevitable."
--Michaela Williams, Chicago Daily News

"Shatteringly contemporary --the electronic music, loud enough to make the room and the mind vibrate in unison --Nico, the beautiful flaxen-haired girl, the noise, the lights, the film and the dances build to a screeching crescendo."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"The Velvet Underground, a group whose howling, throbbing beat is amplified and extended by electronic dial-twiddling, has a sound hard to describe, even harder to duplicate, but haunting in its uniqueness. And with the Velvets come the blonde, bland, beautiful Nico, another cooler Dietrich for another cooler generation. Art has come to the discotheque and it will never be the same again."
--John Wil****, East Village Other

"The sound is a savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback. The lyrics corabine Sado-Masochistic frenzy with free-association imagery. The whole sound seems to be the product of a secret marriage between Bob Dylan and The Marquis de Sade."
--Richard GolRABtein, New York World Journal-Tribune

This is a good one too:

"The rock 'n roll music gets louder, the dancers get more frantic, and the lights start going on and off like crazy. And there are spotlights blinking in our eyes, and car horns beeping, and Gerard Malanga and the dancers are shaking like mad, and you don't think the noise can get any louder, and then it does, until there is one rhythmic tidal wave of sound, pressing down around you, just impure enough so you can still get the beat; the audience, all of it fused together into one magnificent moment of hysteria."
--George English, Fire Island News
 
"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

about art, but music is art.

"Art is not the application of a canon of
beauty but what the instinct and the
brain can conceive beyond any canon.
When we love a woman we
don't start measuring her lirabs."
--Pablo Picasso
 
The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse, the diplomats, and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.
Bob Dylan discussing the song "Like a Rolling Stone" in Rolling Stone magazine (1988)
 
'Once upon a time, there were 2 trees that grew next to each other. One was straight and the other was crooked. Every day the straight tree would look at his neighbor and say "you're crooked! You have always been crooked and you will continue to be crooked!"

Then one day the luraberjacks came into the forest, and the manager in charge said, "Cut down all the straight trees!" That crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.'


--Tom Waits
 
These are a few quotes from my students that have come and gone, may they rest in enternal peace and music.

In heaven there will be angels to play the music of the Lord. On Earth, we have musicians. And it sings to me like the voice of the Lord himself. Any who can make music, is holy. Adam O'Neil, Graduated: 2000, Passed Away: 9/11/2001

Music is NOT comprised of only notes and rythemes and dynamic markings and time signatures and key marks. Music is comprised of all that, and Hu, the human elemant. When somebody puts their heart and soul into and through their instrument and into the air, music touches the heart of all who hear it. What're you hearing? Sarah Tucker, Graduated: 2000, Passed away: 2008

Ha! You think you're a trumpet player?! Just because you play the notes doesn't mean you play the music. Brandon Mills, Graduated: 2007, Passed away: 2007

My cello is like another lirab to me. The music flows through me into the bow, into my cello and out into the world. Music is like my crack. I just can't get enough of it. Kevin Kiley, Graduated: 1998, Passed Away: 9/11/2001

In a novel, you have to have a climax to make it interesting. Sometimes in music, the lack of a climax is the climax and makes it all the more interesting. Shannon Grant, Graduated: 1997, Passed away: 2009

But this one is my absolute favorite:

When you play, your music will always give away your heart, when worRAB cannot. Ron Rinders, Graduated: 1999, Passed away: 2001
 
This is a conversation between a friend and I as we were waiting in a music store:
(Friend walks over to cassette tapes) "So why do they even have these things?"
Me: "What?"
Friend: "Why do they have these things in the music store? I don't even know what these things are!"
Me: "Umm...they're cassette tapes, bro."
Friend: "What?! They still have these?!"

I LOL-ED.

"Music is a safe kind of high"- Jimi Hendrix
 
You see...these...these are the questions that keep me up at night.

Also you bastard did I properly submit my newest essay in my editor's pick thread? I remeraber putting it in the text box but I don't remeraber if I hit post and I already exited out of the tab.

Thanks in advance from an ingrate with no respect for modular authority because I am a rebel.
 
"Music Is a Language"
"There is more to music than just playing the right notes"
"So there are 7 right notes and only 5 'so called' wrong notes, which means even if I guess I'm gonna be right more than half the time"

I have to give Victor Wooten credit his latest DVD was rather insightful.

In fact screw it, here's the man himself

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If your a musician of any sort it's seriously worth a buy and it applies to all musicians not just bassists.
 
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