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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2013 at 13:49
Originally posted by Astral Traveller 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.

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From the movie "Hail Hail Rock and Roll", Bruce Springsteen on being Chuck Berry's back up band.
Bruce: Hey Chuck what songs are we doing?
Chuck: We doing some Chuck Berry songs, 1 - 2 - 3 . . .
 
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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2013 at 07:43
"If you don't like this, I quit"

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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2013 at 07:40
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Lemmy on being asked what he would do if he met Elvis: "I would be astounded, and I would say 'Elvis, I'm astounded"
Lemmy is the man.LOL
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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."



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I always liked this one:

"Surprise, attack, understate, or overstate, but whatever you do, avoid the two cardinal sins of being either boring or predictable." - Bill Bruford
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Points: 1509 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2013 at 06:55
Tuning a mellotron doesn't.
by Fripp
Maybe not that funny, but it always makes me smile.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 08 2013 at 03:06
Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:


Originally posted by zeqexes zeqexes wrote:


This one also:
"Do you like Israeli music?" (Interviewer)
"No. 99 percent of Israeli music is bad, 99 percent of British music is bad, 99.9 percent of American music is bad, 99 percent of music in general is bad. Full stop. Israel is no different; most of the music is crap, like everywhere else in the world." - Steven Wilson




This is the most Steven Wilson quote I've seen. Though it it true, he said it in such a way that he seems like an ass. Of course, this is Steven Wilson...


Another gem from Steven Wilson (paraphrased via memory) from the Canterbury Festival 1999:

Audience member: Radioactive Toy!!

Steven Wilson: Look, the way it works is we have a set list & play it to you; there's no point in calling out for songs unless you've seen the set list, so shut the up!

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Lemmy on being asked what he would do if he met Elvis: "I would be astounded, and I would say 'Elvis, I'm astounded"
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2013 at 22:09
^ LOLLOLLOL   PigPigPig
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

"I'd better not open this now because it might contain contraband. We'll give it to John to supplement his Camels. He was dropped on his head when he was very small. We occasionally cut his fingernails off and smoke them."
-- Ian Anderson, referring to John Evan in the live portion of Living in the Past
I didn't get that one.


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"I tried out that Buckethead guy. I met with him and asked him to work with me, but only if he got rid of the f     g bucket. So I came back a bit later, and he's wearing this green f      g Martian's-hat thing! I said, 'Look, just be yourself.' He told me his name was Brian, so I said that's what I'd call him. He says, 'No one calls me Brian except my mother.' So I said, 'Pretend I'm your mum, then!' I haven't even got out of the room and I'm already playing f       g mind games with the guy. What happens if one day he's gone and there's a note saying, 'I've been beamed up'? Don't get me wrong, he's a great player. He plays like a mo        er."[25]
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Originally posted by zeqexes zeqexes wrote:

"I have a philosophy: More is more, less is less. The idea that less is more is illogical." - Yngwie Malmsteen


this explains a lot about his music.. it's a shame he never realized that sometimes less IS more haha
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Points: 17465 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2013 at 21:15
Pete Townshend calling Plant and Bonham "a couple of ernies from the Highlands." 

I still remember that from reading his bio.LOL
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"Yes, can we have everything louder than everything else?" -- Ian Gillan, from Deep Purple's Made in Japan

"I'd better not open this now because it might contain contraband. We'll give it to John to supplement his Camels. He was dropped on his head when he was very small. We occasionally cut his fingernails off and smoke them."
-- Ian Anderson, referring to John Evan in the live portion of Living in the Past

Guy In The Audience: "Whipping Post"!

FZ: Say that again please.

Guy In The Audience: "Whipping Post"!

FZ: "Whipping Post"? Ok, just a second . . . (Do you know that?) Oh sorry, we don't know that one. Anything else? Hum me a few bars of it, please. Just show me how it goes, please. Just sing, sing me "Whipping Post" and then maybe we'll play it with you.

Guy In The Audience: Ooh-ooh-ooh . . .

FZ: Thank you very much. And now . . . Judging from the way you sang it, it must be a John Cage composition, right? Here we go, "Montana." One two, one two three four...

I might be movin' to . . .

FZ: Hold it! Hold it! We can't possibly start the song off like that! Good God! That's inexcusable! What happened to you last night?

Napoleon: George has a tape of it.

FZ: George has a tape of it? Ok, we'll use that in the second show. Ready? "Montana" . . . Wait a minute, "Whipping Post," no, "Montana." One two, one two three four...

FZ: It's too fast for you? One two, one two three four...

I might be movin' to Helsinki soon
Just to raise me up a crop of
Dental Floss

Raisin' it up
Waxin' it down
Tying it to the Whipping Post
In the middle of town

But by myself I wouldn't
Have no boss,
'Cause I'd be raisin' my lonely
Whipping Post

Raisin' my lonely
Whipping Post
Raisin' my lonely
Whipping Post

-- Frank Zappa, excerpt from "Montana (Whipping Floss)" live from Helsinki on You Can't do that on Stage Anymore Sampler (1988)
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Points: 12794 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2013 at 20:33
Originally posted by zeqexes zeqexes wrote:

This one also:

"Do you like Israeli music?" (Interviewer)

"No. 99 percent of Israeli music is bad, 99 percent of British music is bad, 99.9 percent of American music is bad, 99 percent of music in general is bad. Full stop. Israel is no different; most of the music is crap, like everywhere else in the world." - Steven Wilson

This is the most Steven Wilson quote I've seen. Though it it true, he said it in such a way that he seems like an ass. Of course, this is Steven Wilson...
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Points: 1238 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2013 at 19:44
This one also:

"Do you like Israeli music?" (Interviewer)

"No. 99 percent of Israeli music is bad, 99 percent of British music is bad, 99.9 percent of American music is bad, 99 percent of music in general is bad. Full stop. Israel is no different; most of the music is crap, like everywhere else in the world." - Steven Wilson


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Points: 1238 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2013 at 19:43
"I have a philosophy: More is more, less is less. The idea that less is more is illogical." - Yngwie Malmsteen
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Points: 2822 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2013 at 19:10
Originally posted by kimmokristian84 kimmokristian84 wrote:

One of my favorites of the funny ones is Frank Zappa`s "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny."


My favorite Zappa quote (because it also applies to me):

"I never set out to be weird.  It was always other people who called me weird."
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2013 at 18:10
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ Great post, man. I was never quite fond of, and I am still not fond of, committing myself 100% to what I want to play regardless of what the public wants to hear, though I really want to believe in what Thelonious said.


yeah i get you. I've always felt, after reading that quote, that a true artist owes it to themselves to do that and be uncompromising in their artistic vision but the real issue is that artists are still humans with human needs, and more often than not being uncompromising in your vision leads to problems when it comes to having food to eat and a place to stay, as well as all the other fun stuff artists love to do that requires money :P I like to think that since it is Thelonious who said this that there must be some truth to it though.

edit: interesting point^... I'm gonna see if i can find out when exactly that quote is from


Edited by Sumdeus - January 07 2013 at 18:11
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