Comments on: Composer Quotes http://musicmattersblog.com/2009/09/10/composer-quotes/ inspiring creativity in music education Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:48:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mike Saville http://musicmattersblog.com/2009/09/10/composer-quotes/comment-page-1/#comment-95117 Mike Saville Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:01:18 +0000 http://musicmattersblog.com/?p=961#comment-95117 The British conductor Thomas Beecham is my all time favourite for quotes. If you do a web search you will come across them. My favourites are the ones about Stockhausen and a certain female cello player (both too rude to post here! ). However this one is also very good: Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. I only wish he was still alive when I was playing on the London orchestral scene. The British conductor Thomas Beecham is my all time favourite for quotes. If you do a web search you will come across them. My favourites are the ones about Stockhausen and a certain female cello player (both too rude to post here! ). However this one is also very good:

Brass bands are all very well in their place – outdoors and several miles away.

I only wish he was still alive when I was playing on the London orchestral scene.

]]> By: Chris Foley http://musicmattersblog.com/2009/09/10/composer-quotes/comment-page-1/#comment-95110 Chris Foley Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:05:00 +0000 http://musicmattersblog.com/?p=961#comment-95110 "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing." --Louis Armstrong “All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard no horse sing.”

–Louis Armstrong

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