I can put this briefly. And it'll be really funny! ... Alistair Hinton
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Flowers? Excellent timing, dear lady: you must be a jazz singer - Erik SatieComment
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"Actually, I meant 'What goes down must come back up'; could you alter that in the next edition?" - Isaac Newton to his publisher.
(Whaddya mean, "Wrong Thread"?)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Newton's balls were a regular attraction in Vienna in my younger days - Johann StraussComment
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Made himself Emperor you say ? What a splendid idea - Beethoven
And they all lived happily ever after - PucciniComment
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"C'mon you Baggies" - ElgarComment
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"A nine-foot Steinway Model D concert grand piano? Why, that's just what I had in mind when I composed my Goldberg Variations ! " - JS BachComment
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"I think home life should be entirely separate from work. That's why I never write for Peter." Britten.Comment
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Oi! How do you know that I didn't ever say that?(!)...Originally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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Ah, yes, but he soon retracted this when he first heard them played on the rather larger and even more suitable Bösendorfer 290...Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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"Wish I could write nice pretty popular 12-note Greek folk music like Niko's variations for piano trio!" - Iannis Xenakis, 1950
"England's greatest composer of any era was Guillaume d'Oiseau" - Olivier Messiaen, nd
"I fear the number 23; Schönberg fears the number 13. We could make great decaphonic music between us if only he'd agree to give it a try" - Alban Berg
"Why did Schoenberg worry about people whistling his tunes? People have been whistling mine since the 1920s!" - Elliott Carter, 2012
"Busoni's Turandot's all very fine but, with no Nessun Dorma, it'll never catch on" - Jack Pooch, 1923Last edited by ahinton; 13-10-15, 14:29.Comment
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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"Can you whisper in my ear?" Beethoven.Comment
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You know what Joe ? You can stick your criticism where the sun don't shine - ShostakovichComment
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I shall hear in Devon
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