Re: The Quote Thread

Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:55 pm

"I can open any door, anywhere with a few tiny lines of computer code. No such thing as a private bank account now. They're all mine. No such thing as secrecy. I OWN secrecy. Nuclear codes? I could blow up NATO in alphabetical order. In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey... you should see me in a crown!"

Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:25 am

"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:10 pm

Seen in a pub in late 2008.

Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:36 pm

Mr. K wrote:Seen in a pub in late 2008.

Did you take that photo?

Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:31 am

Cool Cool Water wrote:

Mr. K wrote:Seen in a pub in late 2008.

Did you take that photo?

Yes indeed. Interesting you should ask. I'd just bought my very first camera and this was one of the first pictures I took with it. Wink

Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:07 am

Mr. K wrote:Yes indeed. Interesting you should ask. I'd just bought my very first camera and this was one of the first pictures I took with it.

Cool!

Mon Jul 08, 2019 10:13 pm

"Good day, ladies and gentlemen. This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard the Rainbow Ffolly. You're flying at an altitude of 28,000 feet, air speed 450 miles an hour. Below you, and to your right, is the Indian Ocean and if you look very closely you'll notice a small rowing boat down there. That is your crew. And this is a recorded message--d message--d message--d message--d message--d message..."

Spoken passage during the last few seconds of "Sun Sing" by Rainbow Ffolly (1967)

Sat Jul 13, 2019 11:27 am

"For relaxing times... make it Suntory time."

Bob Harris (Bill Murray) in Lost in Translation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcZb_FYzyOA)

Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:26 pm

"Before the night the Lord will make you itch."

Line remembered from ancient sheet music for The Coasters' "Poison Ivy". It should have read "But poison ivy, Lord'll make you itch!" Very Happy

Sun Jul 21, 2019 12:44 pm

"When Holst completed The Planets in 1917, little was known about the worlds he represented musically, and he didn't care. His inspiration was astrological and his focus terrestrial; War, Peace, Jollity, Old Age, Messenger, Magic and Mystic.

"Today we have visited all the planets, and at first sight this new knowledge might appear to jar with Holst's work, but this would be a superficial conclusion. Set against what we now know, the work catalyses new ideas that enrich and inform debates in progress today, as art with depth must do.

"Mars was once Earth-like. Life may have begun on the red planet and may exist today. The discovery of a second genesis in our Solar System would have profound cultural consequences: it would mean that we are not alone in the Universe.

"Venus was also once Earth-like, but a runaway greenhouse effect has turned a potential paradise into a vision of hell. Listen to Holst's Venus with this in mind, and the piece becomes a requiem for a failed planet, a reminder that planets--just as human beings--were once born and will one day die. It is this fragility that makes them precious."

Professor Brian Cox, in this year's BBC Proms book

Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:34 pm

"Oooh. That's a BINGO!"

Colonel Hans Landa, in Inglourious Basterds

Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:07 am

"Something I learnt recently is that there's no high-hat on most Beach Boys records, supposedly. BW doesn't/didn't like the sound and instructed Dennis/Hal accordingly."

UEF, in the "Beach Boys Gear" topic at Smiley

Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:38 pm

"Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as an angel's kiss."

Turkish proverb

Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:22 pm

"The bass line is what makes a number growl."

Jet Harris, bass guitarist with The Shadows (1958-1962)

Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:22 pm

"My darling, in my cardboard-coloured dreams
Once again I hear your laugh
And I kiss, yes I kiss your perfumed hair
The sweet essence of giraffe."

From "Canyons Of Your Mind" (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)

Fri Dec 06, 2019 1:40 pm

"Roger Waters also adds the worst thing Floyd put to tape to date - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict. This piece of tape loops sped up to sound like chipmunks and Roger Waters screaming something in a Scottish accent for five minutes surely begged the question of whether Syd Barrett was the only one in the band with issues."

kds on Umma Gumma at The Beach Boys Today forum

Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:15 pm

"And, of course, there's so much information they could pass along that Brian, whose recollections are frankly no more germane to the questions at hand than a random lemur's screams, simply cannot."

aeijtzsche at Smiley, bewailing the fact that all Brian's instrumental collaborators of old are dying out

Tue Jan 28, 2020 11:01 am

"Well, now people will have them to reference in the future. And that is certainly something I'm glad to help with: preparation for performances of these works. So many people play things 'wrong.' And though re-interpretations can be cool, sometimes it's just better playing the original chord, or lick, or whatever."

aeijtzsche at EH, on the inability of her videos to be retroactively posted

Source: http://endlessharmony.boards.net/thread/766/james-miscellaneous-clips-video-plea#ixzz6CK1ufBUh

Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:43 pm

"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review in front of me. In a moment it will be behind me!"

The composer Max Reger, in response to yet another negative review by Rudolf Louis, the music critic of the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten.

Original German: "Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik vor mir. Im nächsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein!"

Sat Feb 15, 2020 2:14 pm

"Bavarian Modern Reformed."

Endless Roger's entry in the "Humor" slot of the "Memberlist"

Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:39 pm

"May he rest forever on 2 and 4."

petsite at EH last March, mourning Hal Blaine's passing

Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:28 pm

"Trousers forward, Van Dyke."

Van Dyke Parks signing off an email to EH's Kapitan on the subject of his work with Joanna Newsom and Inara George

Mon May 18, 2020 9:37 am

"Remember to keep it clean with Al Jardine by washing your hands for the amount of time it takes to sing the first verse of 'Help Me, R(h)onda'."

Joshilyn Hoisington, in her “WIGU(TBAM)” harpsichord and Al bass video tutorial

Sat Jun 27, 2020 10:13 pm

"Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on." ~~Gandalf the Grey

"I don`t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." ~~Bilbo Baggins

Two quotes at the bottom of emails I received from DJ, the first for the past six years and the second added two months ago

Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:44 am

"[For 'And I Will Kiss'] the statistics are mind-boggling: 1200 musicians were recorded in dozens of sessions, yielding two dozen Pro Tools projects containing several thousand tracks in total. Three months' work on a 1000-channel desk was needed to condense all this material into a 200+ track mix session, and then to several different stereo and 5.1 mixes. All just to create one 17-minute piece of music. If there was a Guinness Book Of Records entry for World's Largest Recording Session, 'And I Will Kiss' would win hands down."

On recording the "Pandemonium" music used at the 2012 London Olympic Games opening ceremony [Source]