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Band Festival Quotes

Here are my favorite band quotes from my past 2 years of attending them. Hope all of my band buds like them! Don't they bring back great memories?? :)

1999 County Band
1. HOY!
2. Oops!
3. Achitnitzinitska!!!
"You play like vanilla!" and "Fat Sound!"


1999 IUP Honors Band
"Anyone with a wooden chair... please take it to the back...."~Jack... "DAMMIT!!!"~me
"This is a rehersal, not a practice."~Jack
"Are they wearing the same shirt?! I have to get a picture of the twins!!"~me


1999 District 6 Band
"Subdivide!"~ Jason
"Aim at 3 Rivers!"~Jason
*clap, clap, clap*
"Well, I had the opposite problem last night..."~Mr. S
Bill snoring...
"Oh my God! They're gonna think it's porn!!"~Bob on the BSB video


1999 Region 3 Band
"Mr. Unibrow, you're eyebrows grow together and I don't know how!"
"Pulse, people, pulse!"~Glocke
"Who's got the booms to your chicks?"~Glocke
*What's that scratching noise? Is that the cat? No! It's Amy!!*


1999 All-State Band
*Beep!Beep!Beep!* "Are you trying to steal that car little lady?"~security guard.... "No, it's my grandpa's car, giggle, giggle!"~Terri
*cough, cough*
"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies!"


2000 District 6 Band
"I didn't go to 6 years of evil conducting school to be called Mr."~Villela....Dr. Villela
"The tubas sound a bit gassy...I think you guys had a little too much pork-n-beans!"~HBC
"How can he keep his balance on 1 leg?!?"
"Is it hot in here.... or is it just me?"
"A little bit of poo never hurt anyone!" HBC


2000 Region 3 Band
"I am here to take care of you, I love you."~Anthony
"Boy meets beaver!"~Ryan
"That's a big mama bow!"~Anthony
"Intonation is kinda like B.O."~Anthony
"I'm going on a picnic, and I'm bringing... Iiicce creeeam!"
"Let's play bitch-slap UNO!!"
"You will play this is you want to"~Anthony
"Music is all you need... don't take drugs.... you could say I was 'high' at the concert last night!"~Anthony


2000 All-State Band
"I'm afraid of the fish!"~Elaine
"FREE THE FISH!!!"
"Jack!!!.... DAMMIT!Now do you remember me?"
"The Beav! It's the Beav!" *elevator door opens... Beaver is standing right there*
"She knocked her nude!"~Bob
"Did you ever drink milk straight from the cow's teet?"~Adam
"Eat Me!"~The Sandwich
"Where's my hug?"~Triple S


State Band Memories
I'll never forget....
~Watching Days of our Lives at Triple S's house and spilling apple pie all over myself
~The tampon commercial
~Bill, the fish, the State Band mascot
~Rat King's Ears (Do your ears hang low...)
~The Sandwich no one would EAT
~Fried Casserole
~The Vomit Cult
~My friends
~Talking about people that suck and then they come out of nowhere
~The nicknames of all the band members... God, Jesus, The Beav, Rat King, the list goes on...
~The 10 minute drum solo at the jazz concert
~The tie-dye shirts Will wore
~Watching Bug Juice on the Disney Channel
~Anthony in the pool
~My one point victory
~Vesuvius and Pastime!
~The fireworks! We Heart PMEA!
~Playing all the instruments before the concert!
~The concert

Bob, me, and Elaine
State Band 2000!

2000 IUP Honors Band
"Low Reeds... EAT A SMALL CHILD! I don't care if it's even a chiwaua! A live one! Just eat it!"~Jack
"This trill should sound like there is a swarm of bees flying into your pants."~Jack
"Is it oboe season?"~Jack
"Low reeds are evil... no, trombones are evil... no, only their masters are, muhahaha..."~The neverending battle btw. me and the trombone section
"I'm sick of sports getting all the recognition in schools"~Jack
"I saw your picture in the paper, and I was BLINDED!"~Psycho Josh
"You gotta tongue the heebie jeebie's out of the notes!"~Jason
"I think those wheaties are a bit burnt"~Jason
"You have to come in a nanosecond earlier"~Jason
"That's NEATO!!"~Contra clarinets
"I had taco's for breakfast..."~Mindless chatter from the trombone section
"I ate the chihwawa!"~Random Euphonium player
"Sometimes I wear my Pittsburgh Symphony sweatshirt..."~Jason
"I don't know why I wrote this..."~Jack
"Alto clarinets... move into the hole..."~Jack
"SWEET! We have our own row!!"~Me and Melissa
"Low reeds can't play... I mean, people THINK they can't play... you have to prove them wrong!"~Jack
"We need to have an Alumni Honors Band!!"~me and Mel

2000 County Band
"Spread Em Girls!"~Triple S
Straddle Man and the Straddle Song
"Naked Indian"
"Fuck me sideways!!"~Herdman
"I want to strangle them!"~Herdman
"If he's not gay, I don't know who is!"~Marisa
"Get out of here!! Go back to the part of the school where you belong!"~Dirty Janitor
"Who is Jesus?"~Shane
"Get me the e-mail, Rose!!"~Herdman
"Maaaaaaaattttttt, come move the table!"~Triple S
"I like goats, I love to have sex with goats."~Herdman
"1...2....1.....2...."~Triple S checking the mic
"Wait, don't move....DON'T MOVE!!!Let's talk this through first!!"~Triple S
"Fastard."~Herdman
"Where did you get that cowboy hat?? Me and my friends think it's so cool!"~Rose to the Straddle Man... "Holtz's hat shop!!"~Straddle Man

~*All-East Quotes*~
"Bishop McCort...get Cambria Heights!"~Central Cambria director
~"SWEET! We're going the whole way to the top! The Presidential Suite!!"~Me
"This song is going to rape me!"~Cody pointing to Festival Variations
"Don't tell me there's another problem..."~big dude in yellow sweater
"Is your room up here? Well you have to get off this floor!"~random chaperone yelling at Cody while waiting in line for the elevator- "Well, I'M TRYING TO!!!"~Cody
"Hey! You live near us! We know you!"~me and Mel
"Mmmm! What a Meaty sandwich! This is so good!"~all of us teasing Mel
"Hey! It's my girls from 14!"~Head Honcho lady to me and Mel
"I need a twinkie!"~Justin
"I'll kill you-that's NOT against my religion!"~Tina
"You'll see more potatoes coming up in a bit"~Jay Chattaway
~We really like your song Mazama, we played it at our District Band... so what do the words A E OH mean?"~me, Justin, Josh-"Well, it's the people's repect for land, nature, and fish"~Jay Chattaway
"I want the Jay Chattaway's Greatest Hits CD!"~me
"I dare you to start touching that guy's leg."~Adam
"Wow! This is like Gotham City... I feel like Batman!"~Justin
**Maiello Quotes**
"If your butt comes out of the chair-that's OK."
"To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable."
"It's juicy."
"I'm sorry, I get excited. And when I get excited, I can't talk."
"When they pop that mama..."
"Chong, chong, philiumph."
"Intonation is B.O., everybody has it, most take care of it."
"Knuckles Maiello just struck again at the piano."
"Shoot for the big banana!"
"We'll take it Italian Circus tempo!"
"If I catch on fire..."-"STOP, DROP, and ROLL!"
"If I begin to weep-just keep playing!"
"We're building an airplane, not doing rudiments."
"D is for..."
"Remember my Uncle Vito is waiting outside in the black car,if you mess up!"
"I'm not going to embarrass you!"
"When they pop that mama...!"
"I'm starting to smell something.. get out the soap and scrub it out"
"I'm glad I make you laugh!"
"It is the greatest honor to be on this podium!"
"Do you hear anything? There's no music in this stick."
*Licks finger* "TSS! YOU'RE HOT!"
"And I mean that sincerely"


I'll never forget...
~ASCAP
~Cody's weird eating habits
~Sprawling out on the ballroom floor
~Dr. Tim's motivational speech
~Max and Erma's
~Mr. Maiello's mafia jokes
~The mad rush to get a shuttle after the River City Brass Band concert
~The guys flinging their nametags at themselves
~Making fun of Jay Chattaway
~The hallway at the Heinz Hall *clap, clap*
~Nailing the ending of Barnum and Bailey at the concert
~Mr. Maiello's screaming "I LOVE YOU!!!" at the end of the Festival Variations

2001 Regional Band

"When you leave here you're a number, when you're done auditioning you get your name back."~Jerry Berry
"If I make it-I'll cut my nails!"~Rose
Dr. Mikkelson Quotes
"A band that plays out of tune is ordinary. A band that plays in tune is extraordinary."
"You're well trained in PA"
"A rest is a concentrated non performance time"
"Drink all the coffee, drink all the tea, then you drink all the coke and you go to the bathroom" (Sung to the melody of Vesuvius)
"Once you get it right, you're practice begins."
"The intonation gods are smiling at us."
"Where the hell is the triangle?!?!?! You guys are back there jagging off while we're up here trying to make music!"
"These are my shoes. The applause it not for these people. It is for my shoes" (explaining the bowing process)

2001 State Band
"If you don't stop talking, I'm going to send you home! I'd enjoy it! I want to make an example of you"~asshole conductor
"Where's my roomie?"~Triple S
"Wait... let me tell you this story!"~Conductor
"Nothing worthwhile is ever easy to accomplish."~Conductor
"This sucks! I hate PMEA! I wanna go home!"~Everyone
"Well, the guy flute player is good at blowing things..."~me "You didn't have to say that when I was taking a bite of my breadstick!"~Dane
"Where's my purse?!?"~Random gay guy
"How many questions can we answer 'your mom' to?~"Justin
"Where is Josh going...again?!"~Everyone
"Can we have a box of chocolate?"~Me and my roommates "Sure! Here ya go!"~Guy with chocolate
"No band concert is complete without a..." "MARCH!" "No! A John Williams piece!"~Conductor's question to the audience
"We could be the white female version of Outkast!"~Me and Jess

I'll never forget...
~The penis sculpture
~Heffy the unicorn and the purple dingos
~Waving at Golden Boy
~Letting everyone play my alto
~Josh blowing on the top of Adam's bassoon
~The alto clarinet section
~Watching people fall over stragically placed cups at "Jazz Night 2001"
~John and his blue eyes
~My cat pants at breakfast
~Getting a whole box of chocolate
~Your mom
~My jaw dropping when I saw Evan
~Our lunch/supper table
~Twinkle twinkle little star
~The conductor's bowties
~The mullet hall of fame
~My cool alto clarinet roommates

~*Civic Band Memories*~
Oagie dropping his stand and Bodo yelling out, "That was orgasmic!"
Mr. Nagy dancing around and singing when we played The Sixties.
"Lar-Bear"
The Virgins Do The Macarena
"You know what they're gonna say? They're gonna say, GO TO HELL" ~Mr. S
Tom and Larry's little arguments
Bodo walking around the bandroom w/ no shoes and his old man feet.
The night we had pizza and then played like crap.
"What's her name again??" ~Bob
"Can I sign yet?" "YES!"... next week... "Can I sign yet?" "YES!"... next week... "Can I sign yet?" "YES!!" ~Oagie and his ongoing quest to sign in at the concerts.
Bob sitting next to the gay kid from Westmont at the Korean Memorial thingie.
Playing at Pasquerilla
"I think I'm getting deer ticks... *scratch, scratch*"~Mr. Nagy
"Where's the nearest pisser?"~ Dick
"Just put the mics up, I already heard the bullshit about his not being a fucking rock concert"~Keystone games head honcho speaking through a walkey talkey

Triple S Quotes
*A section dedicated to everyone's favorite senile band director*
"Why do you do this to me?"
"Do you think you're more important than the band?"
"Girls, dress fresh!"
"Can you help me? Will you help me?"
"Help me, to help you, to help me"
"No! It's no good! I don't like it! It's not in my plan!"
"Now I don't mean to be chewing at you, but this is how it is!"
"I lost my place!"
"Do you know what they're going to say? They're going to say GO TO HELL!"
"Oooh! Chalk one up for SSS!"
"You've ruined band camp, and it hasn't even started yet!"
"Someone was in the boys room, and were playing with water... it's a good thing I caught myself or I would've fallen and broke my neck!"
"Now I don't mean to chew at you... but..."
"You looked like a bunch of farmers out there! Why don't you change your colors and call yourself Bishop Carrol?"
"I want a note from your mother!"
"Now I don't mean to harp at you!"
"You're gabby today!"
"I thought I was the senior citizen!"
"Wait, let me turn my hearing aid up."


~*Band Camp Quotes*~
"Rose, who was Neil Armstrong's co-pilot to the moon?"... "Neil Diamond"
"Well, see the guy has a push pop, and the girl, she has, uh, gushers! And they get happy and stuff." ~Rose explaining the birds and the bees
"OH MY GOD! MEATBALLS!"
"Do you smell a skank? Oops! I mean do you smell a skunk??"~Herdman
"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
"DRILL DOWN!!! LEFT! LEFT! LEFT! LEFT!"

WHY MUSIC?

Music is a Science.
It is exact, specific and it demands exact acoustics. A piece of music is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.

Music is Mathematical.
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

Music is a Foreign Language.
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notations certainly not English - but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music are the most complete and universal of all languages.

Music is History
Music reflects the environment and times of its creation and the country and/or cultural feeling.

Music is Physical Education.
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.

Music is all of these things, but most of all, Music is Art. It allows human beings to take all of these dry, technically demanding techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing that science cannot duplicate: Humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.

That is Why We are Involved in Music
Not because we expect to major in music;
Not because we expect to play or sing all of our lives;
Not so we can relax;
Not so we can have fun;
But - so we will be human;
So we will recognize beauty;
So we will be sensitive;
So we will be closer to an infinite beyond this world;
So we will have something to cling to;
So we have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good...

In short - MORE LIFE!!

Questions? Comments? Have any quotes that I need to add? Email me! I'd love to hear from you!