Double Bass Quotes

[Scottgun]

This one I think applies well to the recent flurry of gaffes in the US election campaign:

"When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang." --GK Chesterton.

 

[bejoyous]

"Relax, or I'll kill you!!"
-Tom Monohan (former princ. bass of the Toronto Symphony)
said while poking my shoulder during a lesson.

 

[MLysh]

Two of my favorites from Hunter S. Thompson:

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

 

[bassist1962]

One my parents used to use on me when I slacked on my chores:

'Don't have time to do it right, but got time to do it over!'

I find myself using this one on my kids more and more.

 

[ADissen]

"you've got to walk out there like your balls are the size of basketballs'' - David Sheets, Baltimore Symphony, during a lesson on playing the Kouss Concerto

 

[Eric Swanson]

From both my former teacher, Terry Plumeri, and his teacher, Robert Brennand, "Never play halfway."

 

[ryco]

never reason with the unreasonable

 

[Steve Clark]

From a teacher back in my college music days.

"Chance favours the prepared" and "If you're on time you're late" with respect to gigs.

Best one ever, again back in my college days, was Dave Young to me, "Steve, its just a blues!" Ouch!

 

[Jim Calhoun]

"Man, you cats are mother*******s!"

-Thelonious Monk, to a Salvation Army band, somewhere in NY.

Monk ran into a musician he knew on the street one day. The guy said "Hey Monk, what's happening", to which Monk supposedly replied "Everything is happening, all the time".