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[JimLucas]

1) Nobody's perfect. Not even a perfect idiot.

 

2) For you note readers: We're all born with photographic memories,

..... however, we aren't all born with film.

 

3) There are those who claim that a million monkeys hacking away at a million typewriters will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. However, the Internet has shown that this is not true."

 

4) There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

-- Sergei Prokofiev

 

5) Another for the note readers: I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

-- Dimitri Mitropolous

[Helen]

Ah well no fair taking pot shots at note readers.

 

Oh okay, they were funny.

 

More. More.

 

Helen

[stuart estell]

4) There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

-- Sergei Prokofiev

 

How interesting, I'd heard that attributed to Schoenberg.

[JimLucas]

4) There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

-- Sergei Prokofiev

How interesting, I'd heard that attributed to Schoenberg.

I had just copied somebody else's internet post. But since you raised the question, I've just done a Google search:

 

More than 100 sites attribute it to Prokofiev, though all I checked seem to include it in an identical list of quotes, which suggests to me that there's only one actual source.

None, however, attribute it to Schoenberg, though other quotes are attributed to him.

 

Will we ever know for sure?

[Stephen Mills]

Schoenberg just wished he'd said it. If Schoenberg were alive today, he'd probably be composing morris tone rows, or maybe he'd be Stuart Estell.

 

If you listen carefully, Stuart, those tone rows can seem to hover wistfully around C, E, and G. It can be tough being an iconoclast.

Edited March 10, 2004 by Stephen Mills

[JimLucas]

Music is too important to be left entirely to the experts.

 

 

The speed of light is greater than the speed of sound.

That's why some people seem very bright until you hear them speak.

...[And how does that apply to Forum postings?]

 

 

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.

-- Richard Feynman

[Stephen Mills]

Concertina players think outside the box (but drool on top of it).

 

-- Stephen Mills

[JimLucas]

Concertina players think outside the box...

Well, even though I'm shorter than average, there's hardly enough room for me inside my 'box.

[RustyBits]

For you note readers: We're all born with photographic memories,

 

I KNEW there was a reason why I can't read music after many years of trying!

Thank you !