interesting quotes

[Bowerybum]

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

[Norm in Bellevue]

Several decades ago when I was an undergrad bass trombone major at Washington State U. I happened to mention Handel's Messiah to a crusty old prof. His reply, "Norman, I wouldn't walk across the street for a performance of Handel's Messiah if George Frederick Handel himself was conducting and Jesus Christ was singing the tenor solos."

[roweenie]

Several decades ago when I was an undergrad bass trombone major at Washington State U. I happened to mention Handel's Messiah to a crusty old prof. His reply, "Norman, I wouldn't walk across the street for a performance of Handel's Messiah if George Frederick Handel himself was conducting and Jesus Christ was singing the tenor solos."

Wow, that's extreme

[peter birch]

I had someone tell me a few years ago “there is nothing you can’t play. There are only thing you can’t play YET,”

in a similar vein, this from Yehudi Menuin
"there is no such thing as difficult music. Music is either impossible or it is easy. It got from one to the other by a process called practice"