Springwood Music Workshops - Producing musical instruments since 1872 and now providing workshops and support for small music-related businesses. Details of companies currently installed - mainly organ and harmonium building and restoration.
The Mrs Sunderland Music Competition - Details of a competition open to young musicians from Kirklees - for singers and instrumentalists intending to take up a professional career in music. Information on the organisation, the festival, and entry.
Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra - The orchestra of the Colne Valley - a history with details of their current season. Contact and membership information.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Music Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Music
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Music Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Music
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Music Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Music
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Music "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Music
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Music Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Music
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Music They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Music
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Music If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Music
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Music "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Music We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Music
