[Dixielandjazz] Famous Musician's Quotes

[G. William Oakley]

Thanks Jerry.  Wonderful compilation.
Bravo,
Bill

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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Famous Musician's Quotes


> 
> My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer.
> - - Cole Porter
> 
> Don't bother to look, I've composed that already.
> - - Gustav Mahler to Bruno Walter, who had stopped to admire mountain
> scenery in rural Austria.
> 
> I would rather play "Chiquita Banana" and have my swimming pool than
> play Bach and starve.
> - - Xavier Cugat
> 
> [Musicians] talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen
> every time. They really are interested in music and art.
> - - Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his
> home.
> The amount of money one needs is terrifying.
> - - Ludwig van Beethoven
> 
> Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can
> make a living.
> - - Kirke Mecham, on his life as a composer
> 
> I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to
> my feet.
> - - Niccolo Paganini
> 
> Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought
> two or three seats.
> - - Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Mich.
> 
> If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's
> conversation.
> - - Oscar Wilde
> 
> Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
> - - Mel Brooks
> 
> Life can't be all bad when for 10 dollars you can buy all the
> Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for 10 years.
> - - William F. Buckley Jr.
> 
> You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and
> go slow.
> - - Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
> 
> Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
> - - Mark Twain
> 
> I love Beethoven, especially the poems.
> - - Ringo Starr
> 
> If a young man at the age of 23 can write a symphony like that, in
> five years he will be ready to commit murder.
> - - Walter Damrosch on Aaron Copland
> 
> There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
> - - Sergei Prokofiev
> 
> I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer
> enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
> - - Dimitri Mitropoulos
> 
> God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
> - - Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player
> 
> "Already too loud!"
> - - Bruno Walter at his first rehearsal with an American orchestra, as
> the players reached for their instruments
> 
> I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than
> Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
> - - Frederic Chopin
> 
> When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally and
> rubbed his name off the piano.
> - - Bob Hope, on comedienne Phyllis Diller
> 
> Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
> - - Richard Strauss
> 
> In opera, there is always too much singing.
> - - Claude Debussy
> 
> Oh how wonderful, really wonderful, opera would be if there were no
> singers!
> - - Gioacchino Rossini
> 
> Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.
> - - Sir Thomas Beecham
> 
> I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the
> 20th century that has made giant strides in reverse.
> - - Bing Crosby
> 
> Theirs' (the Beatles') is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless
> brand of harmonic primitivism . . . In the Liverpudlian repertoire,
> the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely
> rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually
> surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method.
> "Strawberry Fields" suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding
> between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.
> - - Glenn Gould
> 
> 
> 
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