Re: Dancing About Architecture (was Re: [acid-jazz] In My CD Changer)

From: Stimp (stimp@aei.ca)
Date: Sun Nov 24 2002 - 06:02:12 CET

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    I'd read the Costello interview in Musician magazine, which leads me to
    believe that it's him that said it. I've read a biography on Elvis
    Costello, in which he is also credited for the quote. However, I'm pretty
    sure that it's neither Miles, Mingus nor Zappa who came up with the quote.
    Having read almost every biography on each of these artists, I don't ever
    recall the quote coming up from these sources. I've heard the Laurie
    Anderson and John Cage thing as well, but never really saw any credible
    source attributed to either. Certainly an interesting little mystery.......

    Stimp
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: <mrfliz@rcn.com>
    To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 11:24 PM
    Subject: Dancing About Architecture (was Re: [acid-jazz] In My CD Changer)

    > It's a quote of very murky origin; see
    http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm
    >
    > To rip off Laurie Anderson, how about a square dance?
    >
    > kevin k
    > dj k-now
    >
    > Stimp said:
    >
    > It was definitely not Frank Zappa who made this quote. The exact quote
    was
    > "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" and Elvis
    Costello
    > was the author of that quote. Makes perfect sense given Costello's dry
    wit.
    >
    > Stimp
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "David Bassin" <bassyd@pacbell.net>
    > To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 2:09 PM
    > Subject: RE: [acid-jazz] In My CD Changer
    >
    >
    > > >By the way... who exactly said that "talking about music was like
    dancing
    > to
    > > >algebra?" (or something similar...)
    > >
    > >
    > > the quote is, "talking about music is like dancing about architecture"
    > >
    > > there's a lot of debate regarding who the actual author was, but
    > > Frank Zappa seems to be the most likely candidate.
    > >
    > > DB
    > >
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