Band Quotes 2003-04
"You're the solo guy calling out the super angry animal!"
*Prof. Salzman*

"Do you ever get mad?.....No? OK, well I'll just keep ridin' you until you're mad at me. I don't need your love. I'm good."
*Prof. Salzman...talking to a percussionist who needed to bang his drum a little harder*

"Don't play triplets! It's like a jazz bullfight!"
*Prof. Salzman*

"Deep breath! Safety first, don't play so soft it doesn't come out!"
*band director Matt*

"All the beautiful people in the world play percussion. That's why I'm conducting now."
*Band director Tom, commenting on percussionists*

"Drugs are bad...no high flutes!"
*Band director Matt, commenting on flutes...as usual...*

"Well, it looked good in the mirror..."
*Matt, commenting on his conducting technique*

"This is what I hear: boom CHICK boom CHICK boom CHICK....I need more boom than chick!! BOOM chick BOOM chick BOOM chick."
*Band director Tom on articulation....definitely on fire tonight with the good quotes...*

"Matt's never done this before.......yeah he has!!! I meant on this piece...he's a good director...my foot tastes good...."
*Tom again!*

"Clarinets you need to bring the pitch down...and I'm looking at clarinets that are silver..."
*Tom speaking to the flutes, but talking about clarinets*

"The rose is dead."
*Tom in reference to the way we played "To a Wild Rose"*

"The little English girl has died!"
*Tom, one of our band directors in response to a section of a happy song that was not sounding happy"

"Move that tongue out of the way!!"
*Tom again...if you play a wind instrument you will understand...if you don't, it's too hard to explain now*

"See? We're on your side! That's what's so great! I love band!"
*Tom....he's got some good ones. This time he was giving the saxaphones a pep talk duirng their chorale*

"Watch Fdar!! Everyone keep your eyes on Fdar!!"
*Tom and Matt this time...Fdar (clarinet player) was the key to making sure the band stoop up/sat down at the same time*

"When you get to the staccated notes....staccated....riiiight."
*Matt, one of our band directors*

Don't get distractable!"
*Tom, one of our band directors*

Life sucks and then you die."
*the band director tonight commenting on the flute part of a particular song*

"What are those little flutes called?"
*Mark during the band rally...they were piccolos*