Your Musical Quote of the Day

[Music Head]

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”  - Kurt Vonnegut

[Jerome]

During a rehearsal, conductor Sir Thomas Beecham thought that his female soloist was playing less than adequately on her fine Italian cello. He stopped the orchestra and declared:

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!"

Another one from him

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."

[CRAZY-HORSE]

something like

If you were to re-invent rock and roll you might just call it Chuck Berry - John Lennon

and Lennon's other one  -   "before Elvis there was nothing"

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Alrighty then ... 

"Elvis may be the king of rock n roll, but I am the queen." 

Little Richard

Lol!

and Paul McCartney on meeting Little Richard and realising he was homosexual: (beatles first US trip)

"we (beatles) met Richard back stage and because i sang his songs live i asked him how he gets that pitch so high
when he sings "Woooowwwwwwww!", Richards reply was "come back to my hotel room and ill make you go "wooowwwwww!"

[SteveO]

Hall of Fame country songwriter Harlan Howard - Harlan Howard coined one of the best definitions ever for a country song: "Three chords and the truth."

[Lovely Linda]

Speaking of three simple chords and the God's honest truth

[Lovely Linda]

There are two means of refuge for the miseries of life: music and cats
Albert Schweitzer

[Ruby]

During a rehearsal, conductor Sir Thomas Beecham thought that his female soloist was playing less than adequately on her fine Italian cello. He stopped the orchestra and declared:

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!"

Another one from him

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."

^He had probably been playing Scrabble with Freddie Mercury, lol!

[Ruby]

There are two means of refuge for the miseries of life: music and cats
Albert Schweitzer

Too true!! ...

[Ruby]

"My vocal style I haven’t tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today." 

and

"It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliché and lifetime achievement awards."

Robert Plant

Guess we'll know soon how that's working out! His new album is due for release in two days - Carry Fire ... 

[Ruby]

“If it doesn’t sound right to the human ear, it’s not going to sound right to the microphone.”

Alan Parsons (from his Art & Science of Sound Recording DVD)

This clip doesn’t sound all that right to my human ear, which is weird, but it’s a cool video and I couldn’t resist! The exuberant Lenny Zakatek and Eric Woolfson giving it horns, lol!