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Hello.  I am 5th position Gb. This happens to be my author page.

I'm pretty much a total band geek.  I love all kinds of music.  My hobbies include sleeping, procrastinating, and making obnoxiously out of tune sounds come out of my trombone.

QUOTES I LIKE:

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.  If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.  They teach you there's a boundary line to music.  But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
--Charlie Parker

"Never look at the trombones.  You'll only encourage them." --Richard Strauss

"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
--Henry Miller

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there meaning to music?"  My answer would be, "Yes."  And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?"  My answer to that would be "No."
--Aaron Copland

"A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges."
--Benny Green

"Music should never be harmless."
--Robbie Robertson

"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."
--Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

"I write music with an exclamation point!"
--Richard Wagner

"I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order."
--Eric Morecambe

"Clarinet, n.  An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears.  There are two instruments worse than a clarinet-- two clarinets."
--Ambrose Pierce

"There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C Major."
--Sergei Prokofiev

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which is it impossible to be silent."
--Victor Hugo

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music."
--Gustav Mahler

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
--Jean Paul Richter

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Music is the art of thinking with sounds."
--Jules Combarieu

"Look at the stars sometimes.  They are only notes.  They are music."
--Pat Conroy

"In music, one must think with the heart and feel with the brain."
--George Szell

"All good music resembles something.  Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
--Jean Cocteau

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
--Miles Davis

"Music is a higher revelation that all wisdom and philosophy.  Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks, and invents."
--Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music is an outburst of the soul."
--Frederick Delius

"Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics."
--Pietro Mascagni

"I've come up with the theory that the music is within.  We don't bring it in; it's already there.  We have to figure out how to get it out."
--Howard Roberts

"Music is my religion."
--Jimi Hendrix

"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."
--Sir Thomas Beecham

"You are the music while the music lasts."
--T.S. Eliot

"Music isn't just learning notes and playing them. You learn notes to play the music of your soul."
--Katie Greenwood

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
--Plato

"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world."
--Giuseppe Mazzini

"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy."
--Lou Reed

"All music is important if it comes from the heart."
--Carlos Santana

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have."
--Edgar Watson Howe

"I live my daydreams in music."
--Albert Einstein

"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world."
--George Santayana

"Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
--Maya Angelou

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
--Berthold Auerbach

"After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
--Aldous Huxley

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."
--Oscar Wilde

"Music tells no truths."
--Phillip James Bailey

"Music is a means of rapid transportation."
--John Cage

"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."
--John Coltrane

"What's best in music is not to be found in the notes."
--Gustav Mahler

"If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out."
--Louis Armstrong

"At night, as I tried to go to sleep, I listened to Mr. Fox play the piano, and I learned from those evening recitals that music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide."
--Pat Conroy

"Compare music to drinks.  Some is like a strong brandy.  Some is like a fine wine.  The music you're playing sounds like Diet Coke."
--Pavarotti

"Jazz is my adventure."
--Thelonious Monk

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."
--Samuel Johnson

"In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.  The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time."
--Charles Mingus

"If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing."
--Claude Debussy

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
--Bob Marley

"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell."
--Dave Matthews

"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought."
--Sir Thomas Beecham

"Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play."
--Charlie Parker

"Rap music...sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper."
--Muriel Strode


MUSIC I LIKE:

Tribal Tech, Hypnotic Clambake, stuff from The Phantom of the Opera, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Interpol, Ground Zero, Spoon, Weather Report, Stereophonics, Tom Waits, Chicago, Captain Beefheart, Blood Sweat and Tears, Holger Czukay, Linkin Park, The Byrds, Queen, Hot Hot Heat, Meat Puppets, The Beatles, Glenn Miller, Shelley Hirsch, Blink 182, Deep Forest, Dub Syndicate, The Eagles, The New Pornographers, Spitvalves, The Toasters, Michelle Branch, Jessamine, Suicide, King Tubby, Crossfade, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Stellar Kart, El Gran Silencio, Count Basie, Vanessa Carlton, Operation Ivy, Reel Big Fish, The Exies, Gang of Four, Neutral Milk Hotel, Plain White T's, John Coltrane, Morphine, Bill Watrous, Wu-Tang Clan, Cake, Soul Coughing, Butthole Surfers, Radiohead, Prince Charming, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, The Grifters, Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Seefeel, Soft Machine, They Might Be Giants, Dinosaur Jr., Wire, The Oblivians, Miles Davis, Scott Walker, Neu!, The Velvet Underground, Charles Mingus, Faust, Yo La Tengo, Spacemen 3, Leon Thomas, Tim Buckley, The Posies, Flesh Eaters, Dream Syndicate, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, The Gun Club, MC5, Flipper, Creed, Art Pepper, Tommy Dorsey, Eric Dolphy


INSTRUMENTS I'M LEARNING TO PLAY:

trombone