Who said that?

[EdgeleyRob]

" All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff ..... " ?

Frank Zappa.

What about

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."

[ahinton]

Frank Zappa.

What about

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."

Wasn't that credited to Ben Britten? The only reason I harbour any doubt is that I'd have expected Mary Chambers to respond to this within seconds if so!...

[Beef Oven!]

Wasn't that credited to Ben Britten? The only reason I harbour any doubt is that I'd have expected Mary Chambers to respond to this within seconds if so!...

And Bryn's quiet, so maybe it is Zappa!

[Bryn]

And Bryn's quiet, so maybe it is Zappa!

Indeed, but not Francesco of that ilk.

[Beef Oven!]

"If I could live my life again, I would chase any thoughts of Art out of my head and be apprenticed to a merchant or pursue some other useful trade the results of which could be visible in the end ... What use is it to me that the whole world acknowledges me, but hurries away and leaves me alone with my wares until everything breaks down and I discover to my disgrace that I have lived as a foolish dreamer and believed that the more I worked and exerted myself in my art, the better position I would achieve. No, it is no enviable fate to be an artist."

[visualnickmos]

"If I could live my life again, I would chase any thoughts of Art out of my head and be apprenticed to a merchant or pursue some other useful trade the results of which could be visible in the end ... What use is it to me that the whole world acknowledges me, but hurries away and leaves me alone with my wares until everything breaks down and I discover to my disgrace that I have lived as a foolish dreamer and believed that the more I worked and exerted myself in my art, the better position I would achieve. No, it is no enviable fate to be an artist."

Yep. Tell me about it...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"If I could live my life again, I would chase any thoughts of Art out of my head and be apprenticed to a merchant or pursue some other useful trade the results of which could be visible in the end ... What use is it to me that the whole world acknowledges me, but hurries away and leaves me alone with my wares until everything breaks down and I discover to my disgrace that I have lived as a foolish dreamer and believed that the more I worked and exerted myself in my art, the better position I would achieve. No, it is no enviable fate to be an artist."

Probably not Andrew Lloyd-Banker - but I think all of the 19th Century bods said something like this at some point in late middle age. Wagner? Tchaikovsky?

[Beef Oven!]

Probably not Andrew Lloyd-Banker - but I think all of the 19th Century bods said something like this at some point in late middle age. Wagner? Tchaikovsky?

Nope, you can extinguish both of those.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Nope, you can extinguish both of those.

I'd rather extinguish the first name I mentioned!

[Thropplenoggin]

Carl Nielsen: http://carlnielsen.dk/pages/biograph...sciousness.php

[Beef Oven!]

I'd rather extinguish the first name I mentioned!

The requiem is ok. Quite a nice Pie jesu. Ok, close my account.

[Serial_Apologist]

Carl Nielsen: http://carlnielsen.dk/pages/biograph...sciousness.php

Ah - the man who subtitled one of his symphonies "The Inextinguishable". Terrible title. "The Flock Descends on the Pentagonal Garden" would have been much preferable.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Quite a nice Pie jesu.

Yes. I wonder who wrote it.

Ok, close my account.

Never!

[Beef Oven!]

"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business.”

Answers on a postcard.


And ...

"In 1969, I met Klaus in Berlin. He was a very bad drummer, but he had some sort of craziness about him that I was looking for.”


Clue: In that 2nd one, they are both German people .

[Bryn]

Ah - the man who subtitled one of his symphonies "The Inextinguishable"...

But he didn't. The sobriquet he applied was Det Uudslukkelige. He was, after all, Danish.