Mine is...
"There are three types of pianists. Jewish pianists, gay pianists, and bad pianists!"
Vladimir Horowitz
2007-08-27 08:28:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
Classical Music...sorry if I wasn't clear.
2007-08-27 08:42:01 · update #1
"The music of Richard Wagner is not nearly as bad as it sounds".... Mark Twain
2007-08-28 10:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not so much a quote as a funny story. A conductor was conducting his orchestra through a Phillip Glass piece -- one of those long repetitive pieces that might play the same chord pattern for 32 bars or more. At one point, the conductor had lost count of how many repeats of the current pattern had been played and leaned down to ask the concertmaster, who responded: "That's your job, not mine!"
2007-08-28 09:32:46 · answer #2 · answered by dansinger61 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a more serious vein...
"So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And music shall untune the sky."
-- John Dryden, "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"
That's just the conclusion... I like the entire poem very much.
2007-08-28 16:06:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't remember the exact wording of the quote, but Stravinsky once said that architecture is frozen music.
He also said the music is a "speculation in Time".
2007-08-27 08:57:35 · answer #4 · answered by glinzek 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i admire the incomplete lyric that replaced into stumbled on while Jimi Hendrix died. on the beginning up, they believed it to be a suicide notice, until eventually they stumbled on the different lyrics that went with it :~ "the story of existence is faster than the blink of a watch. the story of affection is hi and so long. until eventually we meet returned"
2016-10-17 03:19:40 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defy the masses, listen to classical music.
2007-08-27 13:12:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." -Leopold Stokowski
"Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven."
-Lawrence Duncan
"Music is the literature of the heart, it commences where speech ends." -Alphonse de Lamartine
I thought these were just a couple really inspiring quotes. I hope you like them too, thanks.
2007-08-27 11:55:10 · answer #7 · answered by Cello Girl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of my many favorites is:
When she began to play Steinway came down personally and erased his name from the front of the piano. (Bob Hope commenting on Phyllis Diller's piano skills).
Musician, composer, teacher.
2007-08-27 17:14:39 · answer #8 · answered by Bearcat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
every song has an ending, but that mean u still cant enjoy the music..
-One Tree Hill
2007-08-27 08:35:32 · answer #9 · answered by carmenclassof06 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"When there is a note followed by a rest, hold the note out to the rest and release the note on the rest"
-Bill Schroeder
2007-08-27 13:30:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋