Good News
The High School Band is the largest since I have been here! We sound HUGE! Looking forward to doing a new festival this Spring.
News and Highlights
(and some lighter things...)
Music Joke of the Week (more or less...)
Updated 1/27/2012!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you get when you play New Age music backwards?
New Age music.
"If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing."
That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it. - Kurt Cobain
If you think you’re too cool for band, You’re wrong. –Abby Hansen
I don’t care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.-Miles Davis
School curricula that ignore the arts produce "highly educated Barbarians,"
-Playwright Edward Albee
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -Leopold Stokowski
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold Auerbach
If the King loves music, it is well with the land. -Mencius
Without music life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing. -Louis Armstrong
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. -Gustav Mahler
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music -Aldous Huxley
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. -Bob Marley
Music's what I need to keep my sanity - 311
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. -Billy Joel
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -Richard Strauss
Some thoughts on Music
