MUSIC QUOTES
"Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating, and since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the Universe is music and should be perceived as such"-Maynard James Keenan.
"...I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell"- Lenin.
"Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is"- Samuel Pepys.
"Music creates order out of chaos; for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatability upon the incongruous"- Yehudi Menuhin.
"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light"- Claude Debussy.
"The only sensual pleasure without vice"- Samuel Johnson.
"Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written is the heart's blood of the composer"- Nellie Melba.
OTHER QUOTES
'Friends, friends, I have fought the sun. He tried to burn me up, but he could not do it. Even battling the sun, I held my own.' Taken from a creation myth of the White River Sioux.
'Overthinking, overanalysing seperates the body from the mind.' Lyrics from 'Lateralus' by Tool.
'Free love was just another party for the hippies to ruin.' Lyrics from 'Unsheathed' by Live.
'Knowledge is a deadly friend, when no-one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools.' Lyrics from 'Epitaph' by King Crimson.
'What is good?- All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad?- All that proceeds from weakness.' Taken from 'The Anti-Christ' by Friedrich Nietzsche.
'The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.' Taken from 'The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell' by William Blake).
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' Taken from 'The Life Of Reason' by George Santayana.
And now for something more humorous, a poem that my Uncle Johnny wrote about students when I first went to university:
Who leaves home to start,
On academic life apart,
From their mothers' broken hearts?
'Aspiring' bloody students.
Who shuns board on campus plots,
Then rent rooms in quiet spots,
And turn them into scruffy squats?
'Untidy' bloody students.
Who because the budget's tight,
All turn veggies overnight,
But eat meat if the price is right?
'Fickle' bloody students.
Who joins every cause they can,
To benefit their fellow man,
But really couldn't give a damn?
'Self-righteous' bloody students.
Who miss lectures by the score,
Coz they got pissed the night before,
And promise they will drink no more?
'Lying' bloody students.
Who thinks life is one great ball,
And don't believe their grades may fall,
Because they bleeding know it all?
'Conceited' bloody students.
Who when end of term has come,
Take dirty washing home to mum,
And don't say 'thank you' when it's done?
'Ungrateful' bloody students.
Who when coming home from pubs,
Wake up half their neighbourhoods,
Then vomit over garden shrubs?
'Loutish' bloody students.
Who thinks spending is a craft,
That saving money's rather daft,
Then end up with an overdraft?
'Reckless' bloody students.
Who takes pleasure and delight,
Convinced that they are always right,
Even when they're talking shite?
'Cocky' bloody students.
Who on graduation day,
In cap and gown of black or grey,
Receive diplomas so they may,
Stop being bloody students?
Who when all their work is through,
Are full of plans of deeds to do-
Who'll end up looking after you?
God help us- bloody students.
Now my nephew's joined them too,
Something we thought he'd never do,
And David though we're proud of you,
You're now a bloody student.
