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I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.
row of stitches.
shut and slipped into
My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and harps, timbales and drums. I can only recognize myself as symphony.
A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.
I'm quite an eclectic musician.
Barney Bigard's clarinet,
The music folded over itself like batter being poured from a bowl, one note atop another ...
It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.
The music is in minors.
You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology
A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.
The piano is an orchestra with 88 ... things, you know
out and folding it against
Is that a ukulele?" I ask.
We stop and listen closely. "Actually," says Elena, "it's a bunch of ukuleles.
The room inside looked like the mouth of an alligator - gaped wide open to swallow something down.
The oboe's a horn made of wood.
I'd play you a tune if I could,
But the reeds are a pain,
And the fingering's insane.
It's the ill wind that no one blows good.
I'm cool either way, I just need to know which instrument to pull out.
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.
I play a bunch of instruments.
Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.
Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'
If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
The guitar is an orchestra in itself.
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.
strings, piano and brass she often
Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
Where words leave off, music begins.
I made you collapsible. I put you in and raised you with string and made you stay
there with putty.
A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
Be empty
and weep with the fullness of the reed flute.
Be empty
and discover the mysteries of the reed pen.
I am an inventor of music.
But what are they?" Annie asked.
"An omphalos, probably," said Jacob.
"A what, dear?" Melinda asked.
"A bellybutton of the world."
"I didn't know it had one.
I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.
Check my riddle, and I'll let you play my fiddle.
The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them.
Tab and I don't play it that way. You wanna order your old lady around, do what you do, not for me to say. I asked her to go, she didn't go. Not gonna make her. But you try, you'll deal with me
They'd been played. By a tuba!
Music is interior decoration.
I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.
Personality is a piece of paper that folds in to conceal different sides and display others, like an Origami
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
I'm a musical genius.
I spend most of my days up to my elbows in someone's chest cavity. Really, I know zip about music."
He didn't bother hiding his surprise. "Wow. That must be ... messy."
"That didn't sound too great, did it? Let me reassure you - I'm a doctor, not a serial killer.
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
The French cook; we open tins.
Music, the knife without a hilt,
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.
Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.
A violinist fiddled.
With strings resined for winter.
Summer's light splintered.
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards ... so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.
My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.
When words leave off, music begins.
Instrumental keys [on organs], introduced in the twelfth century, are so heavy and stiff that they must be played with clenched fists.
I can do a gig without an instrument.
An oboe is an ill-wind that nobody blows good.
Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.'
Music is split up now into little pockets.
I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player."
That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player."
How can you tell?"
It's PIPING hot!"
Then blow on it first!
soothing: re-press of an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived, and her husband Alexandre Lagoya, pairing on Debussy's "Clair de Lune.
I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.
The Musicians of Bremen
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
The melody of music!
A symphony is no joke.
Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.
I'm an interpreter of music.
Phonograph - An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
flaps and buttons. She concealed her gray hair
The butter from Dorothy's' crumpet
Dripped into the bell of her trumpet.
Sweet young Edgar, eating Jell-O,
Dropped a spoonful onto is cello.
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.
I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.
What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.
Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. I'm calling it 'My-Girlfriend's-Going-to-Julliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues.
I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.
I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Nothing like seeing the genesis of the relationship between an instrument and a child.
The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
Marvin bongo drums and a piano and some grass
The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.
An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reversed. A palindrome: gut-tug.
Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.