
„…badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.“
— Lauren Bacall American actress, model 1924 - 2014
On Harry S. Truman's piano playing
Private Screenings interview (2005)
Genette, Gérard. 1997. Immanence and Transcendence, translated by G. M. Goshgarian. p. 102
Undated
„…badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.“
— Lauren Bacall American actress, model 1924 - 2014
On Harry S. Truman's piano playing
Private Screenings interview (2005)
— Josh Homme American musician 1973
Reported in Jay Babcock, " JOSHUA HOMME: People say [record] labels are evil. No, they’re just lame. http://www.arthurmag.com/2007/12/04/josh-homme-people-say-labels-are-evil-no-theyre-just-lame/", Arthur Magazine (December 4, 2007).
— Robert Schumann German composer, aesthete and influential music critic 1810 - 1856
Quelle: Advice to Young Musicians
— Jascha Heifetz Lithuanian violinist 1901 - 1987
Heifetz official web site http://www.jaschaheifetz.com/about/quotes.html
„Playing music is something I would like to do my whole life.“
— Ross Mintzer American musician and performer 1987
From an interview before performing at the 47th Annual Grammy Music Awards in Los Angeles(9 February 2014) http://www.larchmontgazette.com/2005/articles/20050209mintzer.html
2005
„When I play music, that is my best yoga, the best meditation, the best prayer.“
— Hariprasad Chaurasia Indian bansuri player 1938
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
„Quickly would I make my path even,
And by mere playing go to heaven.“
— Henry Vaughan Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet 1621 - 1695
"Childhood".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Kontext: I cannot reach it, and my striving eye
Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that chronicle alive,
Those white designs which children drive,
And the thoughts of each harmless hour,
With their content too in my pow'r,
Quickly would I make my path even,
And by mere playing go to heaven.
„The mere existence of modern weapons“
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
1961, UN speech
Kontext: Men no longer debate whether armaments are a symptom or a cause of tension. The mere existence of modern weapons — ten million times more powerful than any that the world has ever seen, and only minutes away from any target on earth — is a source of horror, and discord and distrust. Men no longer maintain that disarmament must await the settlement of all disputes — for disarmament must be a part of any permanent settlement. And men may no longer pretend that the quest for disarmament is a sign of weakness — for in a spiraling arms race, a nation's security may well be shrinking even as its arms increase.
— Caridad Svich American writer 1963
On how she describes plays in “Making Invisible Stories Seen, Heard and Felt Interview with Caridad Svich” http://www.critical-stages.org/3/making-invisible-stories-seen-heard-and-felt-interview-with-caridad-svich/ in The IATC webjournal/Revue web de l'AICT – Autumn 2010: Issue No 3
— Miles Davis American jazz musician 1926 - 1991
In Playboy to Alex Haley (1962); also in [Milestones: The music and times of Miles Davis since 1960, Jack, Chambers, Beech Tree Books, 1983, 9780688046460, 209], [The Playboy Interviews, Alex, Haley, Murray, Fisher, Ballantine, 1993, 9780345383006, 15], [The Miles Davis companion: four decades of commentary, Gary, Carner, Gary, Carner, Schirmer Books, 1996, 9780028646121, 19], and in [Miles Davis and American Culture, Missouri Historical Society Press Series, Gerald Lyn, Early, Missouri History Museum, 2001, 9781883982386, 205]
1960s
„If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.“
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Kontext: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
— Paul Simon American musician, songwriter and producer 1941
Homeward Bound
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)
„If music be the food of love, play on.“
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Orsino, Act I, scene i.
Variante: Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Quelle: Twelfth Night (1601)
„If music be the food of love, play on.“
— Axel Munthe Swedish physician 1857 - 1949
Quelle: supanet.com/find/famous-quotes-by/axel-munthe/a-man-can-stand-a-lot-as-fqb50991/
— M. Balamuralikrishna Carnatic vocalist, instrumentalist and playback singer 1930 - 2016
Quelle: Staff Reporter, "Mangalampalli can't wait to come home"
On his singing on the occasion of an India-Pakistan cricket match.