Musicians On the Grass, Alas
Daniel P. B. Smith
(From memory)
Loudly the notes of the sparrow are sounding,
Squawks of the pigeons are filling the air;
Over the grass a policeman comes bounding
To silence the singing in Washingto Square.
Old Newbold Morris, sir
Our Park Commissioner
Says "Stop the music," and that he will do:
Down with the surging mass
Up with the holy grass;
"Strike down guitarists," says Morris, O do.
E. Maars, popularized by by Pete Seeger
--
Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith at world dot ess tee dee dot com
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SteveMR200
find something sincere, meaningful, valuable, artistic.
--Wayne Shorter (1933- )
--
Steve
SteveMR200
<b...@LOITERINGstudionotes.org> wrote:
>Those who try to explain a picture are most of the time on the wrong track.
>Gertrude Stein announced to me joyously some time ago that she had at last
>understood what my picture represented: three musicians. It was a still life!
> ~Pablo Picasso
> "Conversation avec Picasso," by Christian Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, 1935
I'm three in one: Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, and
a fellow by the name of Gatemouth Moore. You'll
hear all three of us when I sing. Out of the three
I developed my own style.
--Rufus Thomas (1917- )
(To Felix Hernandez, host of The Rhythm Review
radio program on Jazz 88.3 FM, Newark, NJ)
--
Steve
The Sanity Inspector
wrote!
>You really have to weed through rock 'n' roll to really
>find something sincere, meaningful, valuable, artistic.
> --Wayne Shorter (1933- )
Mr. Gone
-- title of Weather Report album, which some took to be a comment on
Shorter's relative lack of space compared to co-leader Joe Zawinul.
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam