Happy Lucky Communique: Happy Chinese/Lunar New Year

Quotes

"Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument. You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink into your music."

Captain Beefheart

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

Igor Stravinsky

"Hermes stole Apollo's cattle, and with one of the stolen cows entrails and a tortoise shell, he created the first lyre."

Myth of Hermes, patron saint to musicians and theives

"Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized reproduction, distribution, rental or digital transmission of copyrighted sound recordings."

Title 17, United States Code, sections 501 and 506