Smartest thing you've ever heard said about music?

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What was the last thing you overheard and thought "you understand, don't you? You're a smart one"?

― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Seeing as this is unanswered, here is one not about music:

My father-in-law was expounding about ecstacy

"It's like bunji jumping in that it's dangerous and its not something I would ever do. But If I was forced to, I would choose the bunji jump than ecstacy."

And I though, gosh that's quite profound (OTM). Although as he's had 2 heart attacks etc, I think he'd be safer with the e.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Melodies are like horses - you don't really need one"

from jazz odysseus, who I think is the funniest poster on ILM.

― Le Coq (DarrenK), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Importance and relevance is a scam and a trap. Don't bother with it. Don't think too much about it. Once you stop thinking about things in those terms, all of music and art becomes far more enjoyable."

- Matthew Perpetua

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Rekkerd collections are never cool to girls. Looks and clothes are.

― doomified, Monday, 26 January 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes are the Velvet Underground what Oasis are to the Beatles.

(Aside to Doomie, did you ever think that maybe it's not girls who are to blame, but the fact that you have no taste?) ;-)

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 26 January 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees."

Alfred Tennyson

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, shoot, I misread the question. Never mind my answer then.

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 26 January 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

NOW she says it. we know that was that smartest thing Kate's heard about music.

(aside to kate - i bought tcftsaist and its purdy bad. SO WHO HAS THE WORST TASTE I ASK YOU! i am into kraut-rock, soundtracks and electric britfreak.)

― doomified, Monday, 26 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?"

"I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry"

"nothing is accomplished by writing a piece of music
nothing is accomplished by playing a piece of music
nothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of music
our ears are now in excellent condition"

John Cage

― hmmm, Monday, 26 January 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Chilton said to Robert Gordon, 'Most of the Big Star stuff was searching for how to get through two verses without saying anything really stupid." Add 'playing' to 'saying,' and you have as apt a description of the task involved in writing good pop songs as has ever been articulated. ... It's a strange, hair-splitting science, since, let's face it, when you're thinking in Shostakovich terms, the distance between a Brian Wilson objet d'art and a breakfast-cereal jingle is about three atoms wide. ... Success comes when you've taken all the crap the genre gives you to work with ... and made beauty of it, then disguised the beauty as more of the good ol' crap we like to hear when we turn on the radio. ... That's why pop music is the art for our time: It's an art of crap. And not in a self-conscious sense, not like a sculpture made of garbage and shown at the Whitney, which is only a way of saying that 'low' materials can be made to serve the demands of 'high' art. No, pop music really is crap. It's about transcending through crap. It's about standing there with your stupid guitar, and your stupid words, and your stupid band, and not being stupid."

- John Jeremiah Sullivan

The full-length version is even better. It's in a story about Chris Bell in the April 2003 issue of the Oxford American.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ach, Doom, I make no apologies for my hormones. They are what they are.

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://home.no.net/afendrak/uploads/fattyfatfatfat.gif

― Nearly, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ach, Doom, I make no apologies for my hormones. They are what they are.
-- HRH Queen Kate (masonicboo...), January 26th, 2004.

Actually, Kate, that is one of the smartest things I've heard about music! : - D

― doomified, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

That gif is tragic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, to clarify the Strokes quote was the smartest thing *I've* ever said about music, not the smartest thing I've heard said.

And the whole TCFTSIST debacle just showed me why the "writing from the heart" meme in music journalism can be so wrong and misguided. Because your heart can be wrong, and your heart can change its mind, and love is blind but love is also deaf.

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"I make music so I can BUY art" - Jimmy Iovine

― nafthuey, Monday, 26 January 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Turn it down." my dad.

― Huck Hurts (Horace Mann), Monday, 26 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Your new stuff is going to have a tune, isn't it? It's not going to be like that wierd stuff you've been doing?" My brother.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 26 January 2004 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Strokes are the Velvet Underground what Oasis are to the Beatles."

-- HRH Queen Kate (masonicboo...)

Hey, I said that! You're either stealing from me, or you too are a great mind.

― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 26 January 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it was me, I came up with it first, and it's enshrined on ILM somewhere back in the mists of time, so don't even try it on.

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

THAT FAT KID IS FUCKING HILARIOUS!!!

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

...well I also thought the line up...

You must be a great mind, then...

― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"get a haircut, you girl"
My Dad

Not really but i think he might soon.......

― dr_gonzi, Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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