Apropos of the paraphrased quote, to whit, "Writing [/Talking] about
music is like dancing about architecture," I've most often heard it
attributed to jazz-composer extraordinaire Charles Mingus, but have also
heard it attributed to a bunch of others.

So given this google-age we live in, I did a quick search, and came up
with this:

http://home.pacifier.com/~ascott/they/tamildaa.htm

which posits that the earliest firm, verifiable attribution for the
quote, according to that particular website owner, is Elvis Costello.

Also found a website that attributes the quote to Robyn Hitchcock.  And
a few others avidly supporting John Cage.

Oddly, the quote isn't in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.  At least not
that I can find in the online version.

Now, back to our music.

Christopher

> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org 
> [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of josh chasin
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 3:46 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Favorite All-Time Videos
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > > What are the fave videos of other Auditeers?
> 
> Todd Rundgren, "Time Heals."
> 
> I can't think of any other videos I like.  To paraphrase 
> Frank Zappa, Making a video of a song is like painting about 
> architecture.
> 
> Favorite videos 2 through a thousand would be the videos that 
> play in my head when I close my eyes and hear certain songs.
> 
> Oh-- I also like "Cruel to Be Kind" because it has Nick Lowe 
> and Carlene Carter's wedding in it (I don't think she's 
> shooting up) and "So Bad" by McCartney because Ringo is in it.
> 
> Actually, I did just think of another music video I like.  
> The movie "Josie and the Pussycats."
>