Music, Art and Madness Quotations and Proverbs

* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.

The Best Of August 2004:

There is nothing to it,. You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

I didn't have any inhibitions. I saw Elvis and Gene Vincent, and I thought, well, I can do this. And I liked doing it. It's a real buzz, even in front of twenty people, to make a complete fool of yourself.
  • Mick Jagger (1943- )
 No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
  • Bessie Smith (1898-1937) _Young Woman's Blues_ [1927]
 I smoked (marijuana) a long time. And I found out something. First place, it's a thousand times better than whiskey. It's an assistant, a friend, a nice cheap drink if you want to call it that.
  • Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
 If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
  • Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
 Who are you running from, you crazy man? . . . Even gods have lived in the woods like me.
  • Virgil (70-19 BC) _Eclogues_ [43-37 BC], No. 2, Line 60
 What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
  • Rudolph Hametovich Nureyev
 Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
  • Carl Sagan (1934-1996) _Cosmos_ [1980]
 The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
  • Helen Keller
 'If only this endless jumble of music in my brain would stop'
  • Ottorinio Respighi in the delerium of his final illness. (Respighi was not a great composer. He was prone to indolence and depression, yet some of his work is indispensible.)

 

 

 

 

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