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Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 11:51 am

Originally posted by Weasel:
Dan was the man

Or was he?

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 11:52 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
Or was he?

Good question. LMAO

R.Carter · Post by **R.Carter** » Wed Jul 11, 2001 1:28 pm

"Facts are stupid things."- Ronald Reagan
R.Carter

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 11:20 am

For no particular reason, a bunch of quotes in honor of composing music:

"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer." -Cole Porter

"Don't bother to look, I've composed all this 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

"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.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow." -Oscar Levant, pianist and ego, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket.

"I love Beethoven, especially the poems."
-Ringo Starr (Beethoven didn't write any poems)

"There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major." -Sergei Prokofiev, explaining why he still writing tonal music.

"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, onetime conductor of the New York Philharmonic

"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way." -Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player he hated at the moment.

"Already too loud!" -Bruno Walter at his first rehearsal with the New York Philharmonic, on seeing the players reaching 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, in a private letter.

"Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica." -Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor and wit.

"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, c*cky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurisness 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, pianist and ecentric.

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Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 3:50 pm

"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
-Albert Camus

"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."
-Lewis Thomas (who?

)

"There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; it melts us to tears; we know not how; - it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed."
-Charles Kingsley

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Jul 24, 2001 8:58 am

Originally posted by Fezek

I often get my 4's and 7's mixed up"-Norman Lamont, former UK chancellor of the exchequer (Finance Minister).

LMAO!! so if he hadn't made that mistake we would only be paying 46p a litre!!

But then I suppose we are lucky that he only charged us 40% income tax....

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Jul 24, 2001 10:17 am

"It sounds like a pair of skeletons copulating on a tin roof, during a hailstorm!" -Thomas Beecham on the sound of a harpsichord. This was years before standard baroque instrumental practice was revived, of course.

During the rehearsal of a cello concerto by Boccherini, the soloist, Guillhermina Suggia, was having a terrible day. Beecham stopped things, and looked at her sadly. "Madam," he intoned quietly, "you have between your legs one of the greatest instruments that God has devised for man's pleasure, and all that you can do to the damned thing is scratch at it!"

(I posted an inaccurate version of the last anecdote, earlier. This one's been authenticated. I will provide a stamp of approval upon application, along with $50 US.)

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fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Jul 24, 2001 12:40 pm

Since I got going on Beecham, I thought I'd continue. He was a great conductor, and am amateur: a scion of the Beecham family that sold the equivalent of Carter's Little Liver Pills in Edwardian England. (They're still the Beecham in Smith-Kline-Beecham, by the way.) Thomas didn't want to make money. He wanted to spend it, and start opera troups, orchestras, etc.

His career spanned more than fifty years, and he made hundreds of delightful recordings. But he also possessed a scathing wit. Here are a few more authenticated examples:

Beecham shared a birthday with Malcolm Sargent, another superb conductor, and they cordially detested one another. (Beecham referred to Sargent's orchestra, the BBC Symphony, as "The Sargent's Mess.") When Beecham heard of Sargent's knighthood he remarked, "I didn't know he'd been knighted. Why, it was only yesterday he was doctored."

Beecham referred to Herbert von Karajan (another conductor he disliked intensely) as "a sort of musical Malcolm Sargent."

To Audrey Brain, one of the leading horn players of his day, but who sometimes possessed an original sense of rhythm: "I suppose I cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you would be kind enough to keep in touch now and then".

Speaking to reporters about Bronislaw Huberman, the great violinist who was engaged to give a concert with Beecham and the Philharmonia, he remarked, "Huberman is an extraordinary musician. It's just unfortunate he can't play the violin."

Beecham also had a gift for devising quotes to throw at the newspapers:

"I have just been around the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it."

"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."

"The English may not like music, but they like the noise it makes."

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Beecham was travelling one day in a no-smoking compartment on a train belonging to the Great Western Railway. A lady entered the compartment and lit a cigarette, saying, "I'm sure you won't object if I smoke."

"Not at all," replied Beecham, "provided that you don't object if I'm sick."

"I don't think you know who I am," the lady haughtily pointed out. "I'm one of the directors' wives."

"Madam," said Beecham, "if you were the director's only wife, I should still be sick."

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Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Tue Jul 24, 2001 3:06 pm

Judging by this thread, Dan Quayle seems a little bit of open mouth insert foot! lmao!

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Jul 24, 2001 4:04 pm

@Yshania, you didn't know? Even though his responses were carefully scripted (like any President or VP in the US), he still had a desire to speak out on his own--largely because he's under the delusion he's an intelligent person. Whenever he did so, he came across like a raving idiot.

About five years ago he spoke out again, attacking his own political party (probably because they were putting him off again). He badmouthed them, and now he's an idiot without even the remotest chance of national political employment.

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Jul 24, 2001 7:09 pm

Some more Quaylisms:

"Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women." Dan Quayle, 1992.

"You're a very strong woman... Though this would be a traumatic experience that you would never forget, I think that you would be very successful in life." Dan Quayle explaining to an 11-year-old why he would want her to have a baby if she had been raped by her father, 1988.

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system." Dan Quayle speaking to NASA employees, 1990.

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself." Dan Quayle, 1988.

"You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be." Dan Quayle, speaking to American Samoans in 1989, whose capital he pronounces Pogo Pogo.

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." Dan Quayle, 1988.

"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." Dan Quayle, speaking to the United Negro College Fund, 1989. This quote is so ridiculous that it's been added to Bartlett's Quotations.

"I am now cashing in on being vice president for others. They'll remember me. I'll remember them." Dan Quayle, 1992.

Fezek · Post by **Fezek** » Fri Jul 27, 2001 10:59 am

"He just wouldn't stop farting"-From a BBC news reporter commenting on a interview with Colonel Moammar Qaddafi. Sorry forget the reporters name.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Aug 29, 2001 11:16 am

"I know at last what distinguishes men from animals: financial worries." -Jules Renard

"The poet is truly a thief of fire." -Rimbaud

"The book you're reading out loud, Fidentinus, is mine. But the way you're mangling it, you're making it yours." -Martial

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 11, 2001 7:15 pm

It's been long enough, and I think this sucker deserves a bump.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 3:19 am

--entire post snipped by Buck--

Vicsun,

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Fezek · Post by **Fezek** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 4:52 am

"I'm as confused as Adam on Mothers Day." The Peruvian national football coach after watching his team concede two goals(thus losing the match) in the last minute of a qualification game.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 8:48 am

"Try everything once except folk dancing and incest." -Thomas Beecham, conductor

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan, scientist

"If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never comes to you." -Jimmy Carter, diplomat, former president and governor

"You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive." -Jean Cocteau, poet and filmmaker

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Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 12:35 pm

@Fable...I liked Jimmy Carter...too bad a person with a good heart doesn't survive in Washington.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 2:05 pm

Originally posted by Weasel:
@Fable...I liked Jimmy Carter...too bad a person with a good heart doesn't survive in Washington.

Well put, IMO. He was completely at sea in Federal politics. He attempted to introduce ethics and transparency into government, and quickly made enemies among many politicians of both parties on the Hill (meaning, in Congress) who had too much to hide. On the international level, he succeeded in all the tasks he tried for save one: the Iran kidnappings. It was enough to make the rest be forgotten.

As a sidenote, when we went to Budapest, several people there mentioned their national symbol--a round gold crown with a crooked cross reputedly worn by their first king. It literally symbolizes Hungary in the way we in the US would look on the very first copy of the US Constitution. It was stolen by the Nazis, and recovered by the American Allies at the end of WWII; but since Hungary was annexed for the Communists, it was kept in the US.

Until Carter came to office. He went to Hungary himself, and presented the crown back to the Hungarians--despite the fact that they were still under Communist rule. I'm not joking when I tell you that the people who mentioned this, every time, had tears in their eyes. He looked beneath the surface of the regime, and saw the Hungarian people, even in its government. They never forgot, and it was a masterstroke of diplomacy that is typically ignored over here.

Carter;s also arguably been far more successful since leaving office with his foundation setup to establish activities of mediation, and train international mediators. I've seen this pattern of presidential failure followed by enormous post-presidential prestige and success only once before, in Thomas Jefferson.

What a striking contrast to Clinton, who was an enormous success as a President, and a miserable exemplar of personal ethics. And in contrast to Dubbyah and both Bushes, he wrote his own speeches.

Well, I'm spamming my own topic, so here are some Jimmy Carter quotes:

"The passage of the Civil Rights Acts duing the 1960s was the greatest thing to happen to the South in my lifetime. It lifted a burden from the whites as well as from the blacks."

"I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know they are the only ones who serve prison sentences."

"A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity."

"On the Reverend Jerry Falwell (and his Moral Majority): "In a very Christian way, as far as I'm concerned, he can go to hell."

"You can't divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."

"We've uncovered some embarassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business."

humanflyz · Post by **humanflyz** » Mon Oct 15, 2001 7:47 pm

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total oblieration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eyes and see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -Frank Herbert (or Paul)

"Donuts, is there anything that they can't do?" -Homer Simpson

"All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others." -George Orwell