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Posted: January 08 2013 at 07:26
Rick Wakeman: "When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"
Robert Wyatt: "Why play in 4/4 when you can play in 5/8?"
Greg Lake: "Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity."
Robert Fripp: "...What we're going to do, umm... do it twice more, once with the oboe, once without it, and then... we finish" (From Islands)
Robert Wyatt: (On be asked if he would ever go "Wyatting") "Oh no. I don't really like disconcerting people. Although often when I try to be normal I disconcert anyway."
Rick Wakeman: "Prog was the porn of the music industry. People almost used to ask for it in a brown paper bag."
Roger Waters: "Yeah, the beginning of that bloody Phantom song is from Echoes. *DAAAA-da-da-da-da-da*. I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature—-it's 12/8—-and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything. b*****d. It probably is actionable. It really is! But I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew f***ing Lloyd Webber."
Edited by Astral Traveller - January 08 2013 at 07:30
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. -Robert Fripp
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Posted: January 08 2013 at 13:49
Astral Traveller wrote:
Roger Waters: "Yeah, the beginning of that bloody Phantom song is from Echoes. *DAAAA-da-da-da-da-da*. I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature—-it's 12/8—-and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything. b*****d. It probably is actionable. It really is! But I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew f***ing Lloyd Webber."
Joined: June 03 2010
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Posted: January 08 2013 at 21:36
A few long ones:
"First of all I make songs for myself because that is my prime target to please. I've got to please myself because I don't feel that I am that different to most people. I expect that most people would like and understand what I do. That is what I hope. Most of the songs I write are songs that I would like to hear if other people did them, but they don't, so I've got to do it. That is the whole idea. That is why I started making music in the first place, because there were lots of things that I wanted to hear but I couldn't, so I started making them. As for what I would like to be, what I would like to be is just invisible for people. I think that is the ideal because I think that the song is the important thing and I am not really bothered by my personality intruding in that. I just want to ideally let people have some kind of emotional experience, even just a pleasant listening for five minutes or be put into a slightly different frame of mind as the result of the song because I think that is why people want to listen to music anyway. They want to slightly adjust their mood and songs are a beautiful means of doing that. All of my favorite songs do that to me and I would hope that I could do that." - John Foxx
"(Prog listeners) have a passion for this kind of music, just like me. People who are into this music are like, 'oh, oh, listen to this part! Listen to this!' And that's exactly the way I've been all my life, drawn by these moments in music that just melt you. I know, that people think prog is an intellectual thing, that it's a bunch of really smart guys who want to hear people play fast or something. If it's just intellectual, then I would say that it's not good prog. I've always felt like prog, if it's done well, should be very emotional. It's got to touch your soul. Any kind of good music, I think, needs to reach deep." - Neal Morse
"Art lies in the beauty and/or power of the end product, not the motivation of its creator." - retired music reviewer Steve Knowlton
"Nobody understands my music. I mean, I don't even understand it. If I didn't know I was a genius, I wouldn't listen to the trash I write." - Sgt. Floyd Pepper from the Muppet Show and Muppet movies
And the required Zappa quote:
"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." - Frank Zappa
Joined: September 21 2012
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Posted: January 09 2013 at 06:52
Dayvenkirq wrote:
Astral Traveller wrote:
Roger Waters: "Yeah, the beginning of that bloody Phantom song is from Echoes. *DAAAA-da-da-da-da-da*. I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature—-it's 12/8—-and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything. b*****d. It probably is actionable. It really is! But I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew f***ing Lloyd Webber."
And AfLW probably knows it.
Andrew Lloyd Webber also supposedly plagarised from Rick Wakeman's Judas Isacariot.
Edited by Astral Traveller - January 09 2013 at 06:55
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. -Robert Fripp
Joined: April 15 2012
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Posted: January 10 2013 at 02:06
"I like to think of us as the world's biggest cult band" - Geddy Lee "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix "Everything you've heard about King Crimson is true; it's an absolutely terrifying place." – Bill Bruford
Joined: October 16 2006
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Posted: January 10 2013 at 11:38
To break the rock monopoly here (question says musicians in generic:)
Prince, what you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am of myself. There are and there will be thousands of princes. There is only one Beethoven.
And since then musicians, talented or not (mostly this) have realized they are unique and can get away with anything. But some, like dear Ludwig, fully lived up to the quote.
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Posted: January 10 2013 at 11:49
Interviewer: 'You are the silent Stone, Charlie?' Charlie Watts: 'Yes'. Ineterviewer: 'Why are you the silent Stone, Charlie?' Charlie Watts: 'Because I don't talk much.'
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