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MN Dave

September 13, 2018, 05:20:51 AM
This thread is for music quotes. I as OP will start things off:

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." -- Plato
"The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence." — Arthur Schopenhauer

Karl Henning

#1
September 13, 2018, 06:50:37 AM
Quote from: MN Dave on September 13, 2018, 05:20:51 AM
This thread is for music quotes. I as OP will start things off:

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." -- Plato

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
— Victor Hugo
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Florestan

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September 13, 2018, 08:11:59 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 13, 2018, 06:50:37 AM
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
— Victor Hugo

My signature line --- although I don't know if it really applies to pre-, or non-, Romantic music.

TD (in the same vein, actually)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.  - Aldous Huxley

"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

zamyrabyrd

#3
September 13, 2018, 08:12:59 AM
Music is enough for one life, but one life is not enough for music." Sergei Rachmaninoff
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Elgarian Redux

#4
September 13, 2018, 08:54:22 AM
The late Sam Cooke was once congratulated on his beautiful voice. He replied: "Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth."

Karl Henning

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September 13, 2018, 09:36:44 AM
Quote from: Florestan on September 13, 2018, 08:11:59 AM
My signature line

I had forgotten;  after reading x posts by a certain person, the eye may fail to register the signature, e.g.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#6
September 13, 2018, 09:38:01 AM
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
— Igor Stravinsky
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#7
September 13, 2018, 09:38:57 AM
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
— Igor Stravinsky

However, I deny that one must choose between respect and love.  Not that Stravinsky strictly separates them . . . .
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Florestan

#8
September 13, 2018, 09:40:02 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 13, 2018, 09:36:44 AM
I had forgotten;  after reading x posts by a certain person, the eye may fail to register the signature, e.g.

Oh, 'twas not a reproach, mon ami, just a coincidence!  0:)
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

Karl Henning

#9
September 13, 2018, 09:40:46 AM
Quote from: Florestan on September 13, 2018, 09:40:02 AM
Oh, 'twas not a reproach, mon ami, just a coincidence!  0:)

And so understood  :)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Wakefield

#10
September 13, 2018, 09:43:19 AM
Musical quotes? I like Handel quoting a lot of his contemporaries. 
"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

Florestan

#11
September 13, 2018, 09:44:06 AM
Quote from: Gordo on September 13, 2018, 09:43:19 AM
Musical quotes? I like Handel quoting a lot of his contemporaries.

Thread winner, let's go home.

On a second thought, though: it says "music quotes", not "musical quotes".
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

Wakefield

#12
September 13, 2018, 09:51:56 AM
Quote from: Florestan on September 13, 2018, 09:44:06 AM
Thread winner, let's go home.

I don't know, dear Andrei. We (men from the Baroque  :D) don't believe in originality.We love quotes. Instead, you, the Romantics...
"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

Wakefield

#13
September 13, 2018, 09:54:42 AM
Quote from: Florestan on September 13, 2018, 09:44:06 AM
On a second thought, though: it says "music quotes", not "musical quotes".

I was perfectly aware about it. It was just a little trick.  ;D
"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

Florestan

#14
September 13, 2018, 09:57:38 AM
Quote from: Gordo on September 13, 2018, 09:51:56 AM
I don't know, dear Andrei. We (men from the Baroque  :D) don't believe in originality.We love quotes. Instead, you, the Romantics...

Oh, I am not a Romantic but a romantic, querido Eric. Quotes are more than welcome as long as there's a good, hummable tune...  :D
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

vandermolen

#15
September 13, 2018, 10:02:16 AM
'It's a rum go'

(Vaughan Williams in response to a question about his views on music or on how he wrote music).
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

ritter

#16
September 13, 2018, 10:07:04 AM
"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist." G. K. Chesterton

I suppose Telemann would not have agreed... ;D

Florestan

#17
September 13, 2018, 10:21:46 AM
Quote from: ritter on September 13, 2018, 10:07:04 AM
"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist." G. K. Chesterton

I suppose Telemann would not have agreed... ;D

Louis XIV would have probably signed a lettre de cachet for Chesterton and called for Delalande to write the corresponding symphonie.  :laugh:

I love Chesterton but in this he is dead wrong. Good music is an excellent complement to a good dinner. Witness Balzac who, after having a 16-bottle-of-wine wet dinner with Eugene Sue, went to the Italiens to hear a Rossini opera; shortly after he took his seat, the lady next to him shouted indignantly: This gentleman smells like wine!, to which he replied: No, madam, I smell like music! and went out looking for a certain countess's lodge; needless to say, he wasn't able to find it and in the process wasn't able to hear much of the opera either (cf. his Memoirs) .

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

ritter

#18
September 13, 2018, 10:33:01 AM
^^^

"Public drunkenness at the opera is an insult both to the sommelier and the composer" ritter.  ;D ;D

Florestan

#19
September 13, 2018, 10:42:43 AM
Quote from: ritter on September 13, 2018, 10:33:01 AM
^^^

"Public drunkenness at the opera is an insult both to the sommelier and the composer" ritter.  ;D ;D

Si le vin disparaissait de la production humaine, il se ferait dans la santé et dans l'intelligence un vide, une absence plus affreuse que tous les excès dont on le rend coupable. --- Charles Baudelaire
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "
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