No doubt, the above words are familiar to you, but do you remember who penned them? If not, may I suggest that you….
Friends, Romans, countrymen: now that your Shakespeare is refreshed, are you in the mood for some food music? If so, let’s meat our next song:
No potatoes? That will never do, especially if you’re short of moolah and longing for love….
That’s all for now. If you didn’t dig the chow, don’t have a cow. I love you anyhow.
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. –Faith Baldwin
A year ago today, I published a post titled IT’S ABOUT TIME which, as it happens, was about time. That post featured songs about time, such as TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE (which is all about time playing the role of an impatient gadabout). For this year’s edition, with Daylight Saving Time coming up this upcoming weekend, I thought I’d save myself time by posting quotes, like the Baldwin above, that carry on the time theme (which almost rhymes with crime scene, which is a site where it is suspected a pun has been committed in bad Faith). So, without further ado, it’s time to get down to cases:
Things money can’t buy: Time. Inner peace. Character. Manners. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Dignity. –Roy T. Bennett [almost identical with ‘Things on Trump’s Top Ten Never To Do list’]
I have no faith in human perfectibility. Man is now only more active – not more wise – than he was 6,000 years ago. –Edgar Allan Poe [man “more active” in Poe’s time? Of course he was — humans had yet to become Couch Po(e)tatoes]
Throughout history man’s inventions have been timesavers — then came television [100 years post-Poe]. –Evan Esar
I’m afraid of time…I mean I’m afraid of not having enough time — time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I’m afraid of the quick judgments or mistakes everybody makes. You can’t fix them without time. –Ann Brashares
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. –Vincent Van Gough
I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes? –Meg Rosoff
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. –William Faulkner
It takes a lifetime to die and no time at all. –Charles Bukowski
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. –Martin Amis
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead. –Hans Christian Andersen
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. –Jorge Luis Borges
Over the silent sands of time they go/lovers come/lovers go/and all that there is to know/lovers know/only lovers know. –“Sands Of Time” lyrics, from 1955 film KISMET
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Loved the quotes, but I REALLY loved the video. Kismet is one of my favorite scores – only coincidentally the first professional show I ever saw (with Alfred Drake and the original cast!!!) – a gift from my wonderful mother when I was a theatre-obsessed youngster.
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mgh
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I absolutely agree re KISMET. Not only is it one of my favorite scores, but one of my favorite musicals (the film version is highly underappreciated, in my opinion). I own the original Broadway cast album and film sound track album — both Alfred Drake and Howard Keel are magnificent!
Back in my acting days my dream role was Lalume – but it was never produced during the years I was acting, so I didn’t even get to audition for it.
I love everything about the show as well – and the Wright & Forrest lyrics for the Borodin source material were delightfully on the money. God bless my mother for insisting that my father pop for the tickets. I’m sure he thought they were a huge waste of money for kids (my next oldest brother was taken as well). In my case, obviously, nothing could have been farther from the truth. I can still recall almost every moment, decades later and can sing along with every song in the entire score.
I had the original cast album as well, and played it often. Unfortunately, none of my albums made it through one of my many moves (early Beetle albums as well). I actually wept when I unpacked and realized they were missing – didn’t even have a list!
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mgh
Love your ‘back’ story — thanks for taking time to share it.
P.S. I dig your “father pop for the tickets” pun. Keep it up and one day you’ll become as notorious a punster as yours too-ly. đŚ
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If you’re speaking of the song TIME ON MY HANDS, I’ll try to remember to include it in my 3/10/2018 post. It’s not that there wasn’t time to include it here or in my 3/10/16 post — it’s just that there are too many great ‘time’ songs to cover in two posts! đ
P.S. As for “Time on your hands” personally, I don’t have any — at least, none EXTRA!
Thanks to CASABLANCA, “As Time Goes By” is probably the most famous ‘time’ song ever written. But I suspect few people know that the song wasn’t written for the movie — it first appeared in the 1931 theater musical EVERYBODY’S WELCOME. The composer, Herman Hupfeld, wrote over 100 songs, but this was his only big hit, and doubtless would have become long forgotten if not for CASABLANCA.
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But now the television has been supplanted by the computer, Sr. Muse, a device on which you can work and idle simultaneously.
The difference is that I seldom fall asleep at my computer, but frequently do so watching TV. On the other hand, some people probably fall asleep reading my posts — maybe I should market my blog as a cure for insomnia.
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Thanks for the laughs. I get such a kick out of the quotes and the wry take on time. So many good ones, but I have to say the one by Hans Christian Andersen is my favorite. đ
I must say this is probably one of the best batches of quotes I’ve ever put together…and speaking of “together,” I love the Jorge Luis Borges quote because, in its depth, it is to romance like love is to infatuation.
Thanks, Carmen. If my posts cause people to think, maybe it’s because they’re aimed higher than Trump’s half-cocked tweets….but then, I have an unfair advantage — I have a ‘refined’ (yet down-to-earth) audience.
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Thank you. Some of the quotes are depressing (and some aren’t), but I always look for the best and wisest quotes relative to the subject matter of my post….and in this case, I wouldn’t have done the subject (TIME) justice if I’d left out the depressing ones.
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calmkate 12:45 am on September 5, 2019 Permalink |
to win this kate, it must be prolific poetry, sexy sax or dapper dancing like those first two charmers … but no meat, only potatoes please đ
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mistermuse 1:30 am on September 5, 2019 Permalink |
Will this do?
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calmkate 4:16 am on September 5, 2019 Permalink
lovely declaration but no poetry, no sax and no dancing … WTF?
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mistermuse 8:45 am on September 5, 2019 Permalink
Sorry about that, K-K-Katie, but like my m-m-mate-y, maybe you’re a little too hard to please. đŚ
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Ashley 9:42 am on September 5, 2019 Permalink |
That first clip had me baffled. Am sure that’s Howard Keel in the costume but who are the two suits? The little one looks like a very young Spencer Tracy but it can’t be!
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mistermuse 12:11 pm on September 5, 2019 Permalink |
They are JAMES WHITMORE (“the little one”) and Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn (better known as KEENAN WYNN), both veteran character actors, with Wynn being the more recognizable. In Cole Porter’s KISS ME KATE, they play a pair of parody thugs in this film version of Shakespeare’s TAMING OF THE SHREW. It’s one of my favorite musicals.
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mlrover 10:01 am on September 5, 2019 Permalink |
This is almost as good as Spike Jones.
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mistermuse 12:21 pm on September 5, 2019 Permalink |
The vocalist in the POTATOES ARE CHEAPER clip is Beatrice Kay, who was famous back in the day for her big-voiced, humorous take-offs on Gay 90s (& other) songs. She would’ve been the perfect vocalist for the Spike Jones Band.
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Rakkelle 6:40 pm on September 5, 2019 Permalink |
Cute!
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Silver Screenings 6:27 pm on September 15, 2019 Permalink |
Great selections today, as always, but my fave is from Kiss Me Kate with James Whitmore and the fab Keenan Wynn. To be honest, I’ve never seen that film – and I call myself a classic movie blogger!
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mistermuse 10:44 pm on September 15, 2019 Permalink |
That Whitmore-Wynn song & dance is a classic, and is even more wonderful in the context of the film as a whole. KISS ME KATE is a must-see!
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