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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.


Thomas Beecham

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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching h...
SUSAN HILL Now, very few composers write for themselves.
JENNIFER HIGDON I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
OTIS RUSH More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers...
ERIC HOFFER You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls...
J.K. ROWLING Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to ...
A. R. RAHMAN I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.
MITCH HEDBERG No, thanks. If I start wearing heels, boys will whistle at me when I walk by.
DIA REEVES were these two rebellious band members, and we would write nice little tunes, but sentimental stuff.
MICK JAGGER If you don't like dancing to other people's tunes, write your own songs.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
ROWLAND HILL Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.
ROWLAND HILL I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
MATT CAMERON The cycles of humankind – sheep in control of sheep – were part of an ingenious process taught t...
ROBERT NEIL FLIEISCHER Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical i...
DAVID DEL TREDICI Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthet...
BILL CONTI I thought the boys were magnificent, ... They come to compete, they come to play from the first whis...
COLIN CLARKE [But] we need today divine composers, ... We need today someone who can write the score to unite the...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones-when t...
CHARLES IVES Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Th...
THOMAS FULLER I think what's going to happen is that some of the big boys will see that he can write and draw his ...
BRIAN ERNST The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will bec...
ED SHEERAN Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
THOMAS BEECHAM Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Ma...
THOMAS BEECHAM The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
THOMAS BEECHAM Most of them sound like they live on seaweed.
THOMAS BEECHAM All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
THOMAS BEECHAM Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
THOMAS BEECHAM A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
THOMAS BEECHAM I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The ...
GEORGE HARRISON I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers requir...
ANTONIO DAMASIO He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.
ROWLAND HILL There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and...
BILL CONTI It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.
SIMON RATTLE When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the ...
FRANCOISE HARDY Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.
SUZANNE COLLINS Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also record...
ERIC WHITACRE Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of ...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the...
THOMAS S. MONSON I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for t...
MOSE ALLISON You know when 1 in 2 marriages ends in divorce, 1 in 42 boys have Autism, and safety complaints from...
STEVEN MAGEE I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great Ame...
CHARLIE HADEN Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, f...
MOSE ALLISON Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
CHARLES LAMB We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
REBECCA SOLNIT Few of us boggle - though we should - at the fact that Louis Armstrong sang and played trumpet with ...
TERRY TEACHOUT A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Diets are a fool's errand.
EVANGELINE LILLY Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
KARL KRAUS Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays
KARL KRAUS I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a...
ARMAAN MALIK We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thou...
BRIAN ENO Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
GEORGE HERBERT I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as comme...
ROY WOOD We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern E...
MAXIMILIAN SCHELL Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th...
LOUISE TALMA People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; beca...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN The statues of archdukes or composers presided with pensive nonchalance.
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding th...
BILL O'REILLY There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding th...
BILL O'REILLY I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can wr...
A. J. LIEBLING They should be shot. [on the Backstreet Boys ]
NOEL GALLAGHER Kids went to school by that whistle,
DON EDWARDS The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except...
MEINDERT DEJONG Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
EZRA STILES Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians ...
BRIAN GREENE Thomas lived a life we can all aspire to and learn from.
MIKE SINGLETARY I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music o...
GLENN GOULD I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
PAUL HAGGIS I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer shoul...
JOHN BOYNE I'd say that most of the music I write includes me as a performer in some way, and this is not neces...
DANIEL TRUEMAN GS There's only so much you can do when you're using loaner equipment from the universities.
EVAN THOMAS Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
YUNUS EMRE Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can ...
MARTIN FOWLER I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the sk...
A. R. RAHMAN It was a solid team effort. We dominated from whistle to whistle and we looked at a lot of players.
JACK STRONG Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
JAMES COOK Whistle, and she'll come to you.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Only write a story that only you can write.
ALYSHA SPEER Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And e...
RONALD REAGAN Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, bec...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN Slaves weren't allowed to read or write and they hardly knew English. The one thing they had in comm...
ANDREA SIMON Whistle While You Work.
WALT DISNEY Whistle Down the Wind.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to...
MICHAEL BOLTON I think all the boys that write the screaming stuff would write the best love songs.... because they...
TORI AMOS If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with r...
RUSH LIMBAUGH If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with re...
RUSH LIMBAUGH Film music has a great history of composers and performers.
DAVID NEWMAN Composers are not all good conductors.
ANTON SEIDL America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of peopl...
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA 1947 was a good year. A lot of the tunes that we've learned, whether from Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Jor...
DOMINIC SUCHYTA [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I've got seven boys that can run. We haven't had that before.
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