Quotable Quotes

[Inner Space]

"The meaning of life is that it ends." Franz Kafka.

"Spread love and understanding. Use force if necessary." Leon Trotsky.

"Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm the rest of his life." Me.

 

[fredoamigo]

"""Blessed are the cracked ones, for they will let the light through"" Michel Audiard

 

[thewas]

 

[murraycamp]

“Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.” – Miles Davis

 

[JustAnandaDourEyedDude]

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" -- variously attributed to Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson and a few others, none of whom were architects.

I expect one among the subjectivists beginning to overrun ASR will purloin the above to post "Studying measurements of DACs and amps is like dancing about architecture".

Edit: I hasten to add that while I find the quip above to be funny and somewhat memorable, I do not subscribe to its sentiment. Likely it was a put-down by the originator in response to a negative review by a critic. Of course, it has the obvious import that actually doing something, especially if it is a creative activity, is different than, and primary to, writing about it. The quip could be applied to lots of experiential activities, including dancing , painting, eating gourmet food, sex, surfing, walking on the moon, the list goes on ... However, the quip devalues music criticism, and in a broader sense, music theory and theory of acoustics of musical instruments, theory of music, art critiquing. Admittedly, nuanced description of subjective experience is fraught with vocabulary difficulties and ambiguities, and in the final analysis cannot substitute for direct experience. Yet, over the years, I and lots of others have benefited greatly from the writings of competent music critics, not to mention the value of the other oral and written essays on art theory/science and on other areas of human sensation-based experience.

 

[dasdoing]

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

― George Best


“I spend a lot of money on booze, birds, and audio. The rest I just squander.”

--- Dasdoing

 

[Sir Sanders Zingmore]

Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm the rest of his life." Me.

That is one of my favourite quotes ever and it's always been attributed to Terry Pratchett

 

[Vini darko]

There are no mistakes just happy accidents - Bob Ross

 

[mhardy6647]

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Is it meant to be ironic that the photograph doesn't really show a field?

 

[Vincent Kars]

"Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment."
Alan Parsons

 

[clh92]

"There are too many dangerous amateurs on the internet". - from a DIY audio forum post.

And even more who haven't reached amateur status yet.

klunkheads!

 

[Chrispy]

Thud: try the fuse in one direction vs the other

 

[egellings]

I saw this on a poster in a bunker in the Viet Nam war. It shows to hippos having sex, and the caption read " Fighting for peace is like f***ing for virginity."

 

[jkasch]

We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodely do,
What we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must;
Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do,muddily do,
Until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.​

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle

 

[egellings]

Here's to it
And at it
And to it and at it again.
For when you get to it,
Be sure to get at it,
Oy you may never get to it
To get at it again.

 

[Wes]

"I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." - The Wizard of Oz

 

[escape2]

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
- Robert J. Hanlon

 

[egellings]

That'll get me a job!

 

[Raindog123]

“Everyone is entitled to a couple of mistakes.”

 

[Wes]

Reality is not continuously differentiable. - me