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Offline dbrainiak914

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Funny quote of speeding down the highway?
on: July 08, 2007, 12:12:38 PM
I remember hearing a story about a famous musician (don't know if he was a pianist, conductor, etc.) who was stopped by a cop, who said "Why were you speeding?"  He responded, "You would be speeding too if you were listening to ________!"

Who was it and what was the piece?  I think the dialogue went something like that...
"The artist will spend months on a Chopin valse.  The student feels injured if he cannot play it in a day." - Vladimir de Pachmann

Offline gymnopedist

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Re: Funny quote of speeding down the highway?
Reply #1 on: July 08, 2007, 09:19:14 PM
It was a conductor, though i can't remember who.. the piece was the finale of Beethovens seventh.
Belles journées, souris du temps,
vous rongez peu à peu ma vie.
Dieu! Je vais avoir vingt-huit ans...
Et mal vécus, à mon envie.

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Re: Funny quote of speeding down the highway?
Reply #2 on: July 09, 2007, 04:00:39 AM
It was a conductor, though i can't remember who.. the piece was the finale of Beethovens seventh.

Karayan

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Re: Funny quote of speeding down the highway?
Reply #3 on: July 09, 2007, 04:53:57 AM
There's a different story of a cop pulling over an excessive speeder and finding Glenn Gould at the wheel conducting Mahler's 5th Symphony.

Don't let anyone know where you tie your goat.

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Re: Funny quote of speeding down the highway?
Reply #4 on: July 09, 2007, 05:10:40 AM
There's a different story of a cop pulling over an excessive speeder and finding Glenn Gould at the wheel conducting Mahler's 5th Symphony.



Yes and the story I heard was that he was conducting with both hands.

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Re: Funny quote of speeding down the highway?
Reply #5 on: July 09, 2007, 05:18:17 PM
Arrau was once pulled over for doing 3mph on the freeway.

He told the cops he was practising the "Waldstein".

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Re: Funny quote of speeding down the highway?
Reply #6 on: July 09, 2007, 09:32:55 PM
That's true, it's impossible to do the speed limit to Beethoven's 7th!

The difference is driving a minivan - I have no clue what it takes for a cop to pull over a minivan.

Arrau was once pulled over for doing 3mph on the freeway.

He told the cops he was practising the "Waldstein".

Thal

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