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We have to put a quote in our yearbooks, so I want to put something musical, but I dont know any good music quotes that are under 80 characters (including spaces). Got any ideas?
sweet, sweet harmony
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Just any old music quote, or do you have something specific in mind that you want it to say?
Every day we are afforded a new chance. The problem with life is not that you run out of chances. In the end, what you run out of are days.
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Man, seriously? Let met tell you about a little site called www.google.com ... 
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haha dont worry, i checked google. Just wondering if anyone had any cool ones they learned over the years.
sweet, sweet harmony
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A wonderful collections of musical instrument jokes (and quotes) can be found here:
http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/jokes/
Some samples:
Why is an 11-foot concert grand better than a studio upright?
Because it makes a much bigger kaboom when dropped over a cliff.
Why was the piano invented?
So the musician would have a place to put his beer.
Have fun,
George
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How about this one for your yearbook:
"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."
-- Sir Thomas Beecham
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?? your quotes page doesnt have any quotes on it.
I was born the year Glenn Gould stop playing concerts. Coincidence?
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Really? Works for me... I've got white text against a black background. Anyhow, they're all at my other site, too: http://www.geocities.com/pianojerome/
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Might not quite be what you're looking for, but here's one of my favourites:
"The present-day composer refuses to die." -- Edgard Varèse
I have an ice cream. I cannot mail it, for it will melt.
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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.
Oscar Levant, composer (explaining his way out of a speeding ticket)
-Carl
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I was intrigued by this one on Sams website:
"Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more."
-Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist
So true!
Remember, I'm pullin for you, we're all in this together
-From a TV Show
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"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't."
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
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"You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?" Victor Borge
"Use an accoridon, go to jail! It's the law!" Bumper sticker
"So little time and so little to do." Oscar Levant
"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character." Oscar Levant
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There are three kinds of pianist - Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.
Vladimir Horowitz, pianist (himself two of the three)
I didn't know he was gay
Asian Invasion
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This is the one I liked.
On stage there are too many distractions. You feel you have to prove yourself to your audience. So you are tougher with yourself, rather than being able to love yourself, the music, your audience.
Maria Joao Pires, pianist
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