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Quotes

• After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)
• Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
• All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. (Frank Zappa)
• Being a Music Teacher is a noteworthy profession!
• Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. (Kin Hubbard)
• Choir directors face the music.
• Choir directors help you a-choir a better voice.
• Conductors face the music.
• Criticize the performance. Not the performer.
• The devil won't stay where there is music. (Martin Luther)
• Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? (John Cusack)
• The earth has music for those who listen. (George Santayana)
• Either heaven or hell will have continuous background music. Which one you think it will be tells a lot about you.
• God gave us music that we might pray without words.
• Hug a musician...they never get to dance. (Dick Nirhoff)
• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. (Elvis Presley)
• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. (Billy Joel)
• I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. (Bonnie Raitt)
• If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. (Buddy Holly)
• If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. (Simon Rattle)
• If music be the food of love...then play on. (Shakespeare)
• In music the passions enjoy themselves. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• In music there is harmony...In harmony there is peace...
• An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather)
• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain; of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. (Benjamin Britten)
• It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. (Joan Baez)
• I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. (Aretha Franklin)
• I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart. (Waylon Jennings)
• Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. (Paul Whiteman)
• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. (John Philip Sousa)
• Knowing how to listen to music is as great a talent as knowing how to make it.
• Let your heart sing its' own happy song...
  And soon the whole world will be singing.
• Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. (Victor Hugo)
• Music is an outburst of the soul. (Frederick Deluis)
• Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. (John Lennon)
• Music is Love in search of a word. (Sidney Lanier)
• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. (Alphonse de Lamartine)
• Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. (Joseph Addison)
• Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. (Leigh Hunt)
• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. (Jean Paul Richter)
• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. (Oscar Wilde)
• Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. (Lord Erskine)
• Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. (Samuel Johnson)
• Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. (Gottfried Leibniz)
• Music is the shorthand of emotion.(Leo Tolstoy)
• Music is well said to be the speech of angels. (Thomas Carlyle)
• Music is what feelings sound like.
• Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. (Anais Nin)
• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. (Ludwig Van Beethoven)
• Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest.
• Music teachers are an octave above the rest!
• Music teachers are very #sharp.
• Music teachers are very composed.
• Music teachers give sound advice.
• Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. (Joseph Addison)
• Music touches feelings that words can not.
  It is the melody of the heart. The voice of the spirit.
• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. (Maya Angelou)
• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Red Auerbach)
• Musicians go from bar to bar.
• No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing. (W.H. Auden)
• One man's noise is another man's music.
• Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. (Richard Benchley)
• A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. (Leopold Stokowski)
• Rap is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art.
• The simplest form of math is music
• There are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear. (Fran Lebowitz)
• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. (Albert Schweitzer)
• There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. (M. Aumonier)
• There is nothing better than music as a means for uplifting the soul. (Hazrat Inayat Khan)
• Those who wish to sing always find a song. (Swedish proverb)
• The trouble with life is there's no background music.
• When they called 'em rock'n'roll pioneers, they were talking about the music. But that pretty much described the living conditions, too. (Waylon Jennings)
• When words leave off, music begins. (Heinrich Heine)
• Where words fail, music speaks. (Hans Christian Andersen)
• Without music, life is a journey through a desert. (Pat Conroy)
• Without music, life would be a mistake. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. (Edgar Yipsel Harburg)
• Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. (T. Monk)
• You are the music while the music lasts. (T. S. Eliot)
• You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. (Doug Floyd)
• You helped me open the music of my heart.

Music Page Ideas

I used the design line sticker of piano keys, black film frames for two pics, and mounted a few others on black paper. I also used a few black music notes on the page, and titled the page with black ABC stickers...connected the words with the pink ballet slipper stickers. This is probably my favorite page - it is really classy, and although it sounds busy, it really isn't at all.

Cut photos in fairly small oval shapes. Mat with slightly larger ovals cut from black paper. These will form the round part of music notes. After you put them on the page you draw in the rest of the notes with a black callipen. If your photos are too big for this to work you can still use the idea for making titles - just use white paper in place of the photos for the smaller ovals.

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M aking
U nique
S ounds
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Here is an interesting list of Songs with Jukebox in the Title.
There are a lot more than I ever imagined.

Band and Musical Instruments

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Quotes

• All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Some things you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive. (Chet Atkins)
• The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon. (Frank Zappa)
• Beethoven's 9th symphony is about 5 1/2 hours long, so anything that comes near the end would be a Song of Joy. (Michael Leclerc)
• The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two. (Ambrose Bierce)
• A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same - the orchestra will hate him. (Oscar Levant)
• Don't play it like a herd; play it like a section!(Michael Leclerc)
• A drum major has a large following.
• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down. (Hector Berlioz)
• I shall hear in heaven. (Ludwig van Beethoven, dying words)
• If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. (Richard Strauss)
• It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body. (Jack Brymer)
• A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. (Benny Green)
• The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin. (Steve Goodman)
• Music is a much higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. (Ludwig van Beethoven)
• A musician cannot move others unless he himself is moved. (Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach)
• Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. (Louis Armstrong)
• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. (Charlie Parker)
• My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn. (Louis Armstrong)
• Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them. (Richard Strauss)
• The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold. (Victor Borge)
• The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
• The older the violin the sweeter the music.
• People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts. (Paul Hindemith)
• Play the music, not the flute. (Christine Smith)
• The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer. (Arnold Bennett)
• Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there. (Garrison Keillor)
• 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. (Sir Thomas Beecham)
• There's a lot of solos and section work here, which gives everyone the opportunity to really screw things up. (Larry Gareau, to the Community Band of Brevard)
• There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. (Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Igor Stravinsky)
• 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)
• Wagner's music is better than it sounds. (Mark Twain)
• Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world. (Sir Thomas Beecham on trombones)
• You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket)
• You sound like a band playing the Minute Waltz at 59 seconds with 42 measures left to go.(Michael Leclerc)

Violin Concert

Around 1955 a Rumanian gentleman was owed a favor by the celebrated violinist, George Enesco. He was persuaded to give violin lessons to the gentleman's untalented son. Three years later the father insisted he give a public concert, saying, "His Aunt said that nobody plays the violin better than he does." Although Enesco feared the consequences, he arranged a recital at the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Since the soloist was unknown no one bought a ticket.
"Then you must accompany him on the piano," said the boys father, "and it will be a sellout."
Reluctantly Enesco agreed and it was. One the night an excited audience gathered. Before the concert Enesco became nervous and asked for someone to turn his pages. In the audience was Alfred Cortot, the brilliant pianist, who volunteered and made his way to the stage.
The soloist was uniformly bad and next morning the music critic of 'Le Figaro' wrote: "There was a strange concert at the Salle Gareau last night. The man whom we adore when he plays the violin played the piano. Another whom we adore when he plays the piano turned the pages. While the man who should have turned the pages played the violin."

Command Performance

The conductor of the local orchestra was frustrated because at least one of the musicians was absent at every rehearsal. At the final rehearsal, all were present and the conductor publicly thanked the pianist who hadn't missed a practice.
"Well, it's the least I could do," the pianist replied, "considering I won't be able to play at the concert." (from Reader's Digest)

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Official State Musical Instruments

Only a few states have official musical instruments. The fiddle was selected by AR, MO, OK, SD.
Others include: KY - Appalachian Dulcimer; LA - Diatonic Accordion (Cajun Accordion); TX - Guitar.
Oklahoma also selected the Drum as their official Percussive Instrument.

Country Music

Quotes

• Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it. (Shania Twain)
• Country music is three chords and the truth. (Harlan Howard)
• Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. (Chet Atkins)
• The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of the ladder, the top of the mountain. You don't just play the Opry; you live it. (Bill Anderson)
• I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'. (Bob Newhart)
• If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing. (Hank Williams)
• If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. (Dolly Parton)
• I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart. (Waylon Jennings)
• Playing the Opry is one of the few performances in this world that will make my knees shake a little bit. (Travis Tritt, 1996)
• What do you get when you play country music backwards? You get your girl back, your dog back, your pick-up back, and you stop drinking. (Louis Saaberdra)
• The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both. (Emmylou Harris)

Long-Term Effects of Listening to Country Music

• Gun rack mysteriously appears in the back of your car.
• You name your kids Garth, Reba, Conway and Merle.
• You form a deeply-rooted mistrust of relationships, fashion trends, and foreign automobiles.
• Big hats, big buckles, and big bills to the Home Shopping Network.
• Diet of chicken-fried steak and Budweiser gives skin an unearthly glow.
• At each of life's major crossroads, you ask yourself, "What would Willie Nelson do?"
• You become unable to discriminate between one too many and Whoooodoggie!
• You take to speaking in cornball analogies like achin' takes to a cheatin' heart.
• Yet another worn-out 8-track player.
• You begin to worship Jeff Foxworthy the way the French worship Jerry Lewis.
• Strong urge to visit a barber and ask for "The Lovett."