The Piping Centre - Promoting the study and history of piping in Scotland.
GlasJazz - Live jazz listings, interviews with musicians and venue reviews.
Call That Singing - Glasgow's community choir. Information on the society, and how to join.
Glasgow Orchestral Society - Founded in 1870, this fifty-strong amateur symphony orchestra gives four concerts every year.
Peña Flamenca El Pele - Glasgow's flamenco appreciation society organises fiestas and classes as well as participating in the city's West End Festival.
Blue Productions - Details of this analogue and digital sound recording and audio production studio including staff information and email address.
New Age Music 1 - New age sounds by Insignia. Online sales of albums, history and contact information.
Glasgow Chamber Orchestra - Amateur orchestra. Flash-heavy site with concert schedules and orchestra history.
City of Glasgow Chorus - This choir is the largest independent choral group in the West of Scotland having about 140 singers.
Glasgow Chamber Choir - Founded in 1994, Glasgow Chamber Choir has become established as one of Scotland's finest choirs.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Music For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Music
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Music It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Music
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Music "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Music
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Music I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Music
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Music "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Music
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Music Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Music
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Music A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Music
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Music Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Music
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Music Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Music When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Music
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Music Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Music
