Music

I like to say that I like everything from Aaron Copland and Bach to Yes and ZZ Top.
While that's not technically true, I do like a wide variety of music. My little playlist for this
blog is limited by the choices on the website. REALLY limited. But I enjoy most music provided that:
1. It's not rap
2. It's not screaming at me
3. It's not swearing at me
4. And of course, it has to be interesting. You say you like Moby? Get out. (just kidding...but he does like to take a couple measures and repeat it for 4 minutes, doesn't he?)

I enjoy playing music too. I play classical piano and like it very much. I play a little guitar and ukelele (need to practice those more though..). And I play in two bands. It's awesome.

Here are just a few of my favorite music quotes:

"A wrong note played timidly is a wrong note; a wrong note played with authority is an interpretation."

"Music is what feelings sound like."

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Berthold Auerbach

"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow." -Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket

"These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God." -Felix Mendelssohn

"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny." -Frank Zappa

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" -Sergei Rachmaninov



Godspeed. (I always wanted to say that)