To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can
maintain. That is the secret to playing fast. Pepe Romero
Musicianship starts with listening, loving, and wanting to reproduce - Jerry Bickford
“Practicing something fast rarely leads to perfection, but working on accuracy always
leads to the ability to play faster.” - Jody Fischer - from “Beginning Jazz Guitar”
“The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper”. Pable Casals, Conversations.
and a funny one:
Louis Armstrong: “All music is folk music, Ain’t never heard no horse sing a song!”
Just wanted to say, 2nd Wind - I love your signature “Would rather go whistling where there is no path…and leave a trail.” - did you come up with that yourself? It’s very nice. . . .
As my favorite Irish tunes are jigs and reels, I’d like to toss in a quote about dancing:
“All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.” Moliere
Oh yeah and Burnsy, there is a bit more to Pepe Romero than he lets on.
His family used to practice together everymorning when all were in town. The dad and boys would crank up the metronome, work their way through scales, some Giuliani Studies etc.
They had an esprit de corps going that most will never experience.
I had a friend who witnessed this, as he studied with Pepe. So its more than his elegant quote, I’ll tell ya. It was machismo espanol and family values.
As for dancing and Moliere. Problem is, Brazil is a great dancing country. and for quotes, I love this one:
“Brazil is not a serious country” DeGaulle.
Another French outlook.
Week,
Actually Pepe is my favorite classical guitarist. He once told my teacher about watching soccer while practicing with a sock under the strings to muffle the sound. There are just not enough hours in the day for soccer and guitar alone.
Mike
I recently ran across this phrase:
“Every single sound speaks in the plural.”
I read the quote in Kurt Blaukopf’s book, Musical Life in a Changing Society. Kurt was quoting Theodore Adorno. Here is the context:
Cultures without musical res facta(i.e., notated works of art) obviously create music that is the outcome of social activity. Yet neither the creation nor the reception of notated works of art can be separated from the social fabric. “All music, even the stylistically most individualistic, takes on a collective content: every single sound speaks in the plural” (Theordore Adorno, 1959)
Nice turn of phrase … to play a tune where “Every single sound speaks in the plural”
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Enjoy Your Music,
Lee Marsh
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On 2002-12-04 13:23, The Weekenders wrote:
“Brazil is not a serious country” DeGaulle.
Another French outlook.
Here’s a local joke on Brazil :
New Prez just came to power. His inauguration speech goes : “Given our economic situation, the time to dance is over : Samba NO ! Now is the time to work : Trabajo SI !”
And the crowd goes stomping
"Sam-ba-no Tra-ba-jo-si
Sam-ba-no Tra-ba-jo-si "
[ This Message was edited by: Zubivka on 2002-12-04 18:19 ]
