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Post by jk on May 10, 2021 16:39:02 GMT -5
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Post by jk on May 11, 2021 16:01:23 GMT -5
"Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you."
Gustav Holst
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Post by jk on May 15, 2021 7:43:34 GMT -5
"Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as an angel's kiss."
Turkish proverb
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Post by jk on May 16, 2021 16:54:51 GMT -5
"Makes perfectly good sense to me! (I feel like I could collapse at times and I'm only 68.)"
(Brian Lux at Hoffman, responding to a topic whose OP begins 178-year-old British tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed Sunday night)
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Post by jk on May 18, 2021 14:28:45 GMT -5
"There's more to life than b Willy’s melodies but not much more."
Paul Rosales, commenting at YouTube on Brian's gorgeous "Thank Him"
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Post by jk on May 20, 2021 5:10:40 GMT -5
"When you click 'buy now', Amazon commissions a monk to copy the book out by hand for you."
(littlesurfer, at PSF. Thank goodness I posted this quote elsewhere. Her wit and wisdom are sorely missed)
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Post by jk on May 21, 2021 4:20:19 GMT -5
"Life is a process. Unfortunately, by the time you figure it out, you need someone to wipe the drool from your chin."
(An online friend of jk)
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Post by jk on May 22, 2021 3:16:52 GMT -5
"And, of course, there's so much information they could pass along that Brian, whose recollections are frankly no more germane to the questions at hand than a random lemur's screams, simply cannot."
(Joshilyn H at Smiley, bewailing the fact that all Brian's instrumental collaborators of old are dying out)
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Post by jk on May 23, 2021 7:42:21 GMT -5
Khrushchev was talking to some collective farmers. "How's life?" he joked. "It's great!" they joked back.
(Soviet humour)
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Post by jk on May 24, 2021 6:53:13 GMT -5
"Clip clop, clip clop. And a plop. Hello horsie."
(bonniebella's legendary shout at PSF to bringahorseinhere)
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Post by jk on May 25, 2021 14:59:13 GMT -5
"Something I learnt recently is that there's no high-hat on most Beach Boys records, supposedly. BW doesn't/didn't like the sound and instructed Dennis/Hal accordingly."
(UEF, in the "Beach Boys Gear" topic at Smiley)
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Post by jk on May 29, 2021 3:37:59 GMT -5
"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review in front of me. In a moment it will be behind me!"
(The composer Max Reger, in response to yet another negative review by Rudolf Louis, the music critic of the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten)
Original German: "Ich sitze in dem kleinsten Zimmer in meinem Hause. Ich habe Ihre Kritik vor mir. Im nächsten Augenblick wird sie hinter mir sein!"
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Post by jk on May 31, 2021 13:50:05 GMT -5
"May he rest forever on 2 and 4."
(petsite at EH in March 2019, mourning Hal Blaine's passing)
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Post by jk on Jun 2, 2021 12:23:52 GMT -5
"Boys, you may not be aware that there is an object attached to you that looks somewhat like a torch. Next time you're in the bath, look down and you'll see it. If you touch the globe part of that torch it will light up. But as you know, when you turn on a torch the batteries start to run down. And you boys only have very small batteries."(Roald Dahl in a TV documentary recalling a sex talk given by his headmaster at primary school)
NB: This is jk's rough estimate of his more accurate transcription from memory of that anecdote as included in a comprehensive and intelligent quotes thread on The Capitol Board before its moderator saw fit to delete the topic in its entirety, effectively transporting that forum back to the Dark Ages.
With *thanks*. 
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Post by jk on Jun 3, 2021 16:46:31 GMT -5
"Don't know if this cunts, but taping over Dennis' lead vocal on Sail on Sailor. Why oh why???"
(Tony S, in "Beach Boys studio disasters and screwups?" at Smiley)
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Post by jk on Jun 7, 2021 15:02:12 GMT -5
"You will like Cicero, or you will be whipped!"
(Graffito in the house of L. Albucius Celsus in Pompeii)
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Post by jk on Jun 8, 2021 5:08:50 GMT -5
"Remember to keep it clean with Al Jardine by washing your hands for the amount of time it takes to sing the first verse of 'Help Me, R(h)onda'."
(Joshilyn H, in her "WIGU(TBAM)" harpsichord and Al bass video tutorial of 9 May 2020)
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Post by jk on Jun 9, 2021 8:59:36 GMT -5
"Even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother's letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment."(NME review of Brokencyde's debut album I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It! (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokencyde))"Imagine an impassioned triceratops mating with a steam turbine, while off to the side Daft Punk and the Bee Gees beat each other to death with skillets and spatulas. Imagine the sound that would make. Just try. BrokeNCYDE is kind of like that, except it also makes you want to jab your thumbs into your eyeballs and gargle acid."
(A writer for the Warsaw Business Journal attempting to describe their music)
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Post by jk on Jun 12, 2021 16:41:41 GMT -5
Beach Boys Credit Attribution Manual:
Step One: Listen to source recording until you get sick.
Step Two: Keep listening.
Step Three: Use track mixes, alternate sources, isolation software for more listening.
Step Three: Check your hunches against documentation if it exists.
Step Four: Accept the fact that the documentation shatters your preëxisting assumptions.
Step Five: Listen Some more.
Step Six: Game scenarios where the documentation can make sense.
Step Seven: Listen again holding those scenarios in mind.
Step Eight: Ask Craig if he has anything you've failed to consider.
Step Nine: Pray for the lord to take you in the night.
Step Ten: Put that track aside for as long as you can until its siren call lures you twixt the Scyllae and Charybdes of another listening session.
Step Eleven: Finally put it together after 20 years.
(Joshilyn H, needless to say, here on this forum. I love the two Steps Three -- that's how bad it gets)
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Post by jk on Jun 14, 2021 12:12:44 GMT -5
"Just about a mile from where the motorways all merge
You can view the national edifice, a monumental splurge
It's the lonesome traveller's rotgut or bacteria's revenge
The great plastic spectacular descendant of Stonehenge
And the people come to worship on their death-defying wheels
Fancy-dressed as shovels for their death-defying meals
It's the Watford Gap, Watford Gap
A plate of grease and a load of crap"
(Roy Harper, "Watford Gap", from Bullinamingvase, 1977)
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Post by jk on Jun 15, 2021 12:48:16 GMT -5
"The bass line is what makes a number growl."
(Jet Harris, bass guitarist with The Shadows (1958-1962)
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Post by jk on Jul 12, 2021 14:24:59 GMT -5
"When Holst completed The Planets in 1917, little was known about the worlds he represented musically, and he didn't care. His inspiration was astrological and his focus terrestrial; War, Peace, Jollity, Old Age, Messenger, Magic and Mystic.
"Today we have visited all the planets, and at first sight this new knowledge might appear to jar with Holst's work, but this would be a superficial conclusion. Set against what we now know, the work catalyses new ideas that enrich and inform debates in progress today, as art with depth must do.
"Mars was once Earth-like. Life may have begun on the red planet and may exist today. The discovery of a second genesis in our Solar System would have profound cultural consequences: it would mean that we are not alone in the Universe.
"Venus was also once Earth-like, but a runaway greenhouse effect has turned a potential paradise into a vision of hell. Listen to Holst's Venus with this in mind, and the piece becomes a requiem for a failed planet, a reminder that planets--just as human beings--were once born and will one day die. It is this fragility that makes them precious."
(Professor Brian Cox, in the 2019 BBC Proms book)
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Post by jk on Aug 2, 2021 12:06:01 GMT -5
"Alan calls me Henry when he is exasperated. I prefer it to what Dennis used to call me."(Hank Briarstem, in Little Deuce Coupe)
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Post by jk on Aug 26, 2021 4:36:47 GMT -5
"Rock'n'roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people. And they were gone within two years. Chuck Berry was in jail, Jerry Lee's career had been destroyed by the British press. Elvis was in the f**king army … And then we got Bobby Rydell and all them c***s. It took us a couple of years to get rid of them, then the Beatles showed up. That was all right."
(Lemmy Kilmister on early pop music, from an interview in The Guardian of August 2015. Reproduced in Mick Wall's biography of Lemmy, p. 31)
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Post by jk on Aug 29, 2021 15:54:51 GMT -5
"I'm thumbing a ride from a fella with a tractor now. Hopefully we'll get to a shop by release day. The mellow yellow 60s/70s style cover art alone is a joy to behold after this gloomy miserable time. Really looks like textile designs of the era and for this era feels like summer and hope. Thank you and congratulations to the artist."
(littlesurfer on 4 June, talking about you-know-what. This eternal optimist looks forward to reading her views on what she hears)
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