well, my last blog was last summer, and here i go again this year trying to make a fresh start and concentrate but it's nowhere that easy because to turn over a new leaf you need to have started reading the textbook in the first place and..........well, i guess everyone knows how that ends anyway...........
where was i? oh, that's right i was doing some insightful retrospection into what a sucker i am for procrastination....but let's talk about that later, shall we?
another year flashed by, and although 2007 was probably the best year of my life so far (unless you count the years that i missed out on because i was drooling and trying to learn how to stand up and walk) i'm still glad it's over, like when you read a satisfying book and it builds up to a very nerve-stretching climax at the end and just before that there's kind of a lull in the storm and you can't wait for the final explosive action or revelation or whatever to happen so you can sigh and close the book and get back to reality.......
right now's the lull, but it'll all be over by 21st march.....and then there's a wonderful ten-day hiatus when i get to be nobody and do nothing and come summer it'll all come full-circle again............and all i can do meanwhile is to try and keep my head above water, fly when i can, and in the meantime do stuff like blogging funny quotes online like ::
Sir Thomas Beecham
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Brass bands are all very well in their place—outdoors and several miles away.
The sound of a harpsichord: two skeletons copulating on a galvanized tin roof.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Why do we have to have all these third-rate foreign conductors around when we have so many second-rate ones of our own?
[To a musician during rehearsal] We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.
Try everything once, except folk dancing.
[Warning his conducting students never to glance at the trombones:] It will only encourage them.
No opera singer ever dies too soon.
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. [On Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.]
What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about. [On Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.]
[When asked if he had played any Stockhausen] No, but I have trodden in some.
[Displeased with a female cellist:] There you sit with one of God's greatest creations between your legs and all you can do is scratch it!
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
Brass bands are all very well in their place—outdoors and several miles away.
The sound of a harpsichord: two skeletons copulating on a galvanized tin roof.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Why do we have to have all these third-rate foreign conductors around when we have so many second-rate ones of our own?
[To a musician during rehearsal] We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.
Try everything once, except folk dancing.
[Warning his conducting students never to glance at the trombones:] It will only encourage them.
No opera singer ever dies too soon.
In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages. [On Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.]
What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about. [On Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.]
[When asked if he had played any Stockhausen] No, but I have trodden in some.
[Displeased with a female cellist:] There you sit with one of God's greatest creations between your legs and all you can do is scratch it!
Robert Benchley
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
Except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime for humorless people.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
have a nice day, and peace be to you
trisha
2 comments:
Awesome quotes, I must say :D.
A bigger font size would have helped, though!
nice. :)
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