Music Quotes - 2010

"I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide." — Anthony Pilla, The Mail, AARP The Magazine March&April 2010

"The year I turned 50, I took drum lessons and later became the drummer in a band. I have been rocking ever since. Yes, a white-haired lady playing the drums makes folks do a double take, but I am still energetic, happy, productive, and, dare I say it, even cute! In many ways this is the most fun I've had in my life. Thanks for confirming that just because we're over 50 doesn't mean we're dead!" — Marla Stahl, The Mail, AARP The Magazine March&April 2010

"Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe—for a few months—that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?" — Augusten Burroughs, "Running With Scissors

:Life is too short for bad tone." — seen on a fiddle case at MidWinter Bluegrass Festival, Northglenn CO, February 2010

"Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music—it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing." — Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey

"Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish—to use a seamanly metaphor—to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them." — Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey

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