“When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.”
Joe Satriani (1956) American guitar player
As quoted in Joe Satriani : Riff By Riff (1994) by Rich Maloof
“Play it like something you hear down by the river.”
Diana M McVeagh Edward Elgar: His Life and Music (London: J. M. Dent, 1955) p. 163.
On the trio of the second movement of his Symphony No. 1.
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"Suzanne" - Isle of Wight performance (1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_56ep729TE - Live in London (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snMOmHzgssk <br class="br">Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) <br class="br">Context: Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.<br>You can hear the boats go by,<br>You can spend the night beside her,<br>And you know that she's half crazy<br>But that's why you want to be there,<br>And she feeds you tea and oranges<br>That come all the way from China.<br>And just when you mean to tell her<br>That you have no love to give her<br>Then she gets you on her wavelength<br>And she lets the river answer<br>That you've always been her lover.<br>And you want to travel with her,<br>And you want to travel blind,<br>And you know that she will trust you,<br>For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
