Dieselboy

(Probably been done before, search engine stinks, blah blah blah)


Anyway, I was looking at some stuff about Kraftwerk and saw this. They were asked:

- "Do you listen to other music?"

To which one of them replied...

- "No. Maybe when we wander round. Sometimes when we go out to dance. Sometimes radio. I don't have a stereo at home. We listen to silence. We listen to fictitious music in our heads. Think music."


I thought about it for a minute and decided... that is completely awesome. I went to look for more music quotes, and came across another that just seemed perfectly fitting for MusicBanter users:


“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
-Sergei Rachmaninov



Write down your favorites if you like.

Davey Moore

The press quotes on the inside of my friend's vinyl copy of 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' are hilarious and awesome, and makes me wish I was at the Plastic Exploding Inevitable shows, because the critics sound bewildered, in love, frustrated and sort of scared at the same time. All of them together paint quite a picture of the critical reaction that the band had.


"A Three-ring psychosis that assaults the senses with the sights and sounds of the total environment syndrome ... Discordant music, throbbing cadences, pulsating tempo."
--Variety

"Not since the Titanic ran into that iceberg has there been such a collision as when Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable burst upon the audiences at The Trip Tuesday. For once a Happening really happened, and it took Warhol to come out from New York to show how it's done. "
--Los Angeles Times

This is the best one:


"Warhol's brutal assemblage --non-stop horror show. He has indeed put together a total environment, but it is an assemblage that actually vibrates with menace, cynicism, and perversion. To experience it is to be brutalized, helpless. --you're in any kind of horror you want to imagine, from police state to mad house. Eventually the reverberations in your ears stop. But what do you do with what you still hear in your brain ? The flowers of evil are in full bloom with the Exploding Plastic Inevitable."
--Michaela Williams, Chicago Daily News

"Shatteringly contemporary --the electronic music, loud enough to make the room and the mind vibrate in unison --Nico, the beautiful flaxen-haired girl, the noise, the lights, the film and the dances build to a screeching crescendo."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"The Velvet Underground, a group whose howling, throbbing beat is amplified and extended by electronic dial-twiddling, has a sound hard to describe, even harder to duplicate, but haunting in its uniqueness. And with the Velvets come the blonde, bland, beautiful Nico, another cooler Dietrich for another cooler generation. Art has come to the discotheque and it will never be the same again."
--John Wil****, East Village Other

"The sound is a savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback. The lyrics combine Sado-Masochistic frenzy with free-association imagery. The whole sound seems to be the product of a secret marriage between Bob Dylan and The Marquis de Sade."
--Richard Goldstein, New York World Journal-Tribune

This is a good one too:

"The rock 'n roll music gets louder, the dancers get more frantic, and the lights start going on and off like crazy. And there are spotlights blinking in our eyes, and car horns beeping, and Gerard Malanga and the dancers are shaking like mad, and you don't think the noise can get any louder, and then it does, until there is one rhythmic tidal wave of sound, pressing down around you, just impure enough so you can still get the beat; the audience, all of it fused together into one magnificent moment of hysteria."
--George English, Fire Island News

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pbr_201

yes, very nice quote

Farfisa

"The ticks turn into tocks, and the tocks turn into ticks" - Derek Bailey when asked "What happens to time-awareness during improvisation?".

Piss Me Off

"People ask me, ‘what was the best year for the music?’ I always say, this year is the best year for music. Prior to that it was the previous year"
John Peel

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Bulldog

“All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here's what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I'm a lucky bastard. I'm probably the single most lucky man in the world - apart from our Liam."
Noel Gallagher

OceanAndSilence

"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

about art, but music is art.

"Art is not the application of a canon of
beauty but what the instinct and the
brain can conceive beyond any canon.
When we love a woman we
don't start measuring her limbs."
--Pablo Picasso

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Gavin B.

The first two lines, which rhymed 'kiddin' you' and 'didn't you,' just about knocked me out, and later on, when I got to the jugglers and the chrome horse, the diplomats, and the princess on the steeple, it all just about got to be too much.
Bob Dylan discussing the song "Like a Rolling Stone" in Rolling Stone magazine (1988)

ElephantSack

I just found this quote about music in this book that's taking me forever to read, and it made me glad that I stuck with it. It's a little long-winded, so bare with me. It takes place between the protagonist/narrator and a jazz musician, who he meets through his endless wanderings around his city. Whenever he asks him his opinions about music, the saxophonist usually just smiles and dismisses it, until the time he demands an answer from him:

"Well," he said with equanimity, "you see, in my opinion, there is no point at all in talking about music. I never talk about music. What reply, then, was I to make to your very able and just remarks? You were perfectly right in all you said. But, you see, I am a musician, not a professor, and I don't believe that, as regards music, there is the least point in being right. Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that."
"Indeed. Then what does it depend on?"
"On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possible and with all the intensity of which one is capable. That is the point, Monsieur. Though I carried the complete works of Bach and Haydn in my head and could say the cleverest things about them, not a soul would be the better for it. But when I take hold of my mouthpiece and play a lively shimmy, whether the shimmy be good or bad, it will give people pleasure. It gets into their legs and into their blood. That's the point and that alone. Look at the faces in a dance hall at the moment when the music strikes up after a longish pause, how the eyes sparkle, legs twitch and faces begin to laugh. That is why one makes music."

I liked that. I knew I stuck to this book for a reason.

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The Monkey

Also about art in general rather than specifically music, but it's one of my favourites:

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
-Oscar Wilde