Copelandisms 07-08!

Copeland-isms!  2008

-       8/25 LG “Let’s have a little sex contest now.”

-       8/28 ST “Wimps!  You are not men!”

-       9/4 SoT “Don’t crap on her face.”

-       9/5 SoT “I hear that turns some people on!”

-       9/6 LG “I felt no swell!  …write that down.”

-       9/12 [to Brian Denton] “You gotta be funnier than that if you’re gonna interrupt me.”

-       9/13 RC “Men, you are Maggie!”

-       9/18 RC “I know how stupid I look just by looking at Katie [Fussell].”

-       9/21 Ticket “We need to tease them with our subtlety … that’s good for other things too.”

-       9/22 RC “I want this to be like, beer-swinging, beer-meister!  Guys, you still sound like, I’m about to be SICK!  This is before the hangover!”

-       9/25 “You may not know this about me, but I ride around in my car thinking about vowels and where my tongue is.”

-       10/1 RC “Hit it harder with your tongue!”

-       10/3 BH “Put a little P in your B… that sounds disgusting.”

-       10/4 RC “We’re just drinking beer and thinking about how lucky we are to be saved.”

-       10/9 LP “Men, you’re in syrup.”

-       10/15 “This is Nick…he found love both at Old Miss and at UAB…a more permanent love here at UAB.”

-       10/18 recording @ Bluff Park “Where’s Chris [Reid]?  Oh, he’s putting the make on Sam.”

-        10/25 RC “That’s where I do my best conducting, in the shower.  You don’t need that image.”

-       10/25 ND “This is a law of your mouth-space”

-       10/25 ND “You can’t laugh at this right now if it’s kickin’ your hiney.”

-       10/30 RC [with motions to indicate…] “No, on that one, I want BIG WOMAN!”

-       10/30 SC “I wish you guys weren’t so tough-looking, I might do a little slapping.”

-       10/31 SC “Whatever magic I can produce with my little hand.”

-       11/5 “I mean, I love doin’ it.”

-       11/28 ND “Drive that one home with a biting attack!”

-       12/4 ND “If the women are aggressive enough, it should excite the men to a sufficiently louder response.”

-       12/4 ND “Yes!  That’s what I need….excitement!

-       SC “It sounds like a heavenly function!  That sounds retarded when I say it, like they’re in the bathroom.”

-       1/8 WW “You sound too white.”

-       1/9 WW “Basses!  You will look impotent if you don’t hit that….no man wants to look that way.”

-       1/10 “Page four of the shits”

-       1/14 RC “Altos and Tenors, you sound like you know how fast your mouth should be going but you just don’t want to do it.”

-       1/15 RC “Everybody say, FABULOUS!”

-       1/15 RC “That’s beginning to get good.”

-       1/15 RC “In your most queenly voice…It has to have shake, and volume…I mean shake in your VOICE.”

-       1/15 RC “Basses, don’t sing like a bunch of queeny men, but, you know, like the women.”

-       1/15 ND “Don’t sing it if you sound bad.  That works in marriage too, just don’t do the stuff you’re not good at.  Wait…well, I was talking about cleaning, but then I realized there’s a lot of other stuff, too.  Sorry, I just keep thinking about Mom over there.”

-       1/16 WW “I can see why people might smoke some endorphins from time to time.”

-       2/20 JA “We’ve just stuck the sopranos out there naked, on that high g; and I’m thinking about them….not naked, but..”

-       2/21 SF “Basses, join the dance.  Don’t come in like the father.  I don’t know what I mean by that.”

-       2/26 SF “Men, you’ve got to be gentle giants here – don’t impress me with your volume.”

-       2/28 SF “I believe everyone has problems.”

-       2/29 a SHPC “All right, close your eyes everybody [removes sweater] Okay, I just didn’t want the women to have that image of me.”

-       3/4 SC “Basses, I don’t want something to fall out of your mouth, I want a beautiful tone to emerge.”

-       3/17 WL “I love sinners!”

-       3/18 “Basses, you need to sound like real singers here.  I can’t do it, but…think Dr. Mostellar.”

-       3/18 “We have an opportunity to excite people with our accents!”

-       3/18 [in monotone; on eternal life] “Good Lord, if that doesn’t excite you, what does?”

-       3/18 WL “Oh…god, that would be nice.  Sorry, I didn’t mean it to sound that way.”

-       3/19 “Think up as you go down”

-       3/19 SF “Oh man, wow, that sounds HOT! …in a non-hot way.”

-       3/19 WL “I can’t press a button or move my butt a certain way to make this crescendo happen!”

-       3/20 SF “Put a little bounce in it like I like it.”

-       3/20 SF “Men, you sound virile today!”

-       3/20 WL “No, you’re way too loud, altos, you sound like something’s wrong with you… you’re just water, you’re not a hose!”

-       3/21 WL “What you did just then, it doesn’t have to be like that.”

-       3/21 WL “That’s just automatically ugly.”

-       3/24 ND “I’m going a little crazy, can you tell?”

-       3/24 WW “DIRTY!  You gotta feel….YEAH!”

-       3/26 WL “Women and altos!  I mean, altos and tenors.”

-       3/27 WL “I realize that you’ve got a lot of reasons for doing it wrong.”

-       3/27 WL “Raise your eyebrows! Like you’ve been kissed before!”

-       3/27 WL “I haven’t found the words to tell you to make ‘until the universe’ as magical as I want it to be.”

-       3/27 SD “Women, you’re not all that important.”

-       3/27 SCD “Altos, I love you.  I feel things for you…I feel like I’ve hurt my children.  I want to spend some special time with you after choir.”

-       3/28 ND “Whatever position that is, I admire it, but I can’t do it.”

-       3/30 RiverchaseMeth “Sadie has turned on the consonant faucet, everybody!  Let it wet you!”

-       3/30 RiverchaseMeth “Y’all aren’t gooey enough”

-       3/30 RiverchaseMeth “Y’all are scratchin’ some weird things.”

-       3/30 RiverchaseMeth  “And then the tenors will scratch themselves.”

-       3/31 SCD “I don’t want you breathing after the long notes.  Those are the white ones.”

-       3/31 WW “Women are attracted to together-men.  That’s why they have never been much on me before.”

-       4/1 “You sound alive and you smell like potatoes.”

-       4/1 WL “it’s like you know the future and it’s all good, okay?”

-       4/1 WL “Act like, ‘I’m so freaking glad I get to sing la’s again!’…I wish I could tell you everything I thought.”

-       4/2 SCD “Men, your bums are way too loud.”

-       4/3 “This is Dr. Jordan’s arrangement, and if anyone gets away with illegally copying his stuff, it’s me.”

-       4/3 “Boy, you guys really sound HOT!”

-       4/3 “Think about the position of your tongues.”

-       4/4 “Let’s see if you can keep it up for two pages.”

-       4/7 RC *** “Men, I’m gonna try and get off a little earlier here. …please don’t write that one down.”

-       4/7 WL “You’ll have to allow for the fact that I might be a little crazy.  YEAH!  BABY!”

-       4/8 “It’s like all the sudden you’ve got your hand in your arm or something.”

-       4/8 RC “It’s like party party party oh you’re at church.”

-       4/8 WL “Too many basses are going down early right there.”

-       4/9  ND “It’s the difference between a mature woman and a whiney brat.  That’s just an example.”

-       4/10 “Caroline’s foot just fell out of Leigh’s….belly.”

-       4/10 ND “It’s messing up our rhythmic integrity.”

-       4/10 SF “Brian, I don’t need you any brighter.  You’re bright enough.”

-       4/10 WL “I’m just gonna say it and pretend that’ll fix it...because I like to fantasize like that sometimes.”

-       4/14 WW “GOD I’M HAPPY!  No, I don’t feel that way, but we’ve got to pretend that we’re excited about something in our lives!”

-       4/14 SoT “Women, give me more than what I’m asking for.”

-       4/15 RC “Gotta be bigger than that, guys!”

-       4/15 ND “Take advantage of anything smart I say the first time, because then I’ll forget it.”

-       4/16 SoT “Someone sounded like a drunk fool over there… Martin?”

-       4/17 RC “And you’re thinking … mood change.”

-       4/17 WL “Don’t make me ignore you.”

-       4/18 SpringConcert “And now the judges are no longer looking at the men, they’re thinking – my god!  the American women!”

-       4/18 SpringConcert “Y’all are waking the little baby!”

-       4/18 SpringConcert “Who was that?  You’ll be Aislynn from now on if you do that!”

-       4/21 “I wanted you to feel what it felt like.”

-       4/21 SF “I love the women. [pretends to smoke] I mean, in general…”

-       4/23 ND “I don’t really want to do men…  You should imagine the women here… you can make your own private jokes later.”

-       4/23 ND “I’m going on every time.  Unless I don’t, of course.”

-       4/23 ND “Get excited and feel good in each measure”

-       4/30 Ireland, Day 1 “Quite frankly, you look terrible.”

-       5/1 Ireland, Day 2 “Tenors, you’re just barely there.  I’m playing with the sopranos and you’re just there.”

-       5/2 Ireland, Day 2 “That room Internet is blazing.”

-       5/2 Ireland, Day 2 “Yeah, and then I’m gonna give you the finger.”

-       5/2 Ireland, Day 2 “Girls, leave them alone.  What? At least I didn’t say boys.”

 

Christmas

 

-       10/25 Rune “Put your brains on.”

-       11/6 Rune “Nancy, that touches me deeply.  Sopranos, I want you to touch me that deeply.”

-       11/6 Rune “I’m going to tell you my hamster story one day.”

-       11/6 Rune “Go to the bathroom, get to know one another.”

-       11/27 Rune “Look at Jake, isn’t that a beautiful mouth right there?”

-       12/4 Rune to Brian Denton: “You got a pretty… pretty mouth.”

-       12/4 Xmas “I would proverbially shoot you if you breathe after ‘fire.’”

 

Women’s Christmas

-       10/16 Regretting “Accent SEX!”

-       10/19 Rose Ping it up there, just like a little boy.”

 

Brahms

-       1/31 “Don’t weenie yourself into that”

-       1/31 “Hit it and get off it”

-       2/4 “I’ve never said the f-word in public, but I thought it just then.  Brian, don’t cause me to sin.  …I can feel my face getting red.”

-       2/7 “So you’re singing about the hand of god while you’re in the hand of god so while you’re not singing, send up a little prayer that you’ll get the next part right… by the way, that was a lousy joke.”

-       2/21“Tenors and Altos start, okay sopranos go!  gang, you have about one more chance left before I start to lose it.”

 

Women’s Chorale

-        10/2 SR “I always like it when they make the fruit of the womb mysterious.”

-       10/17 SR “Be in a very Catholic mood here”

-       10/17 SR “Okay, let’s just skip the step of ‘I don’t know this very well’ and interpret it the way you think I would…and I’ll tell you if you’re wrong.”

-       10/19 SR “I feel very Catholic conducting this.  I mean that.”

 

Chamber Choir

-       8/29 DebI “I’m gonna shoot some altos”

-       9/10 SGifts “okay, now tenors and men”

-       9/12 DebIII “I promise, to Dr. Copeland (praise be upon him) to listen to the CD that he made us (praise be upon him).”

-       10/8 DebIII “It sounds like hicks when you say it, unless you poke your lips out.”

-       10/10 DebIII “Let’s pretend she has a point.” (for Cherith)

-       10/15 SGifts “I don’t usually forget to be a retard”

-       11/5 DebII “In the first measure, give me a little more tongue – you know what I mean by that.”

-       11/7 DebII “Whitney, you can control more than you think.”

-       1/14 M “I can always hear Brian [Denton], and that’s great, because he’s always right on pitch.”

-       1/14 M “You can’t be lulled into passiv—into badness by the tenors.”

-       1/30 CD “get busy… that’s a weekend slang thing.”

-       2/4 CD “Men, look at your part while I work the women.”

-       2/4 CD “Let me have the chink girls.”

-       2/6 CD “Guys, you’re used to crapping into a piece.”

-       2/18 CD “They’re right there, their mouths are on it.”

-       2/18 CD to Jenny: “STUPID!”

-       3/17 Haec “Don’t try to force it, just let it happen.”

-       3/19 Haec “This is a real note, not a fart.”

-       3/19 Haec “Let’s start at letter c… that’s cut-time in my language.”

-       3/24 Haec “Good Lord, we all finished at the same place!”

-       3/26 Haec “Sorry, I just want to be with the guys for a little bit.”

-       4/9 Haec “Y’all are going for thin and I want THICK!”

 

 

Conversations:

-       9/13 RC Dr. C: “Sopranos, you’re a big woman….you’re brave, you’re proud!” Chris: “Maggie.”

-       9/21 Mrs. Reynolds: “Can I be anal retentive for a moment?”  Dr C: “Can you not be?”

-       2/5 Dr. C: “You can call that section a Nancy.”  Nancy: “You callin me a bitch?”  Dr. C: “Uh…ha, yeah, that’s what I meant.  I’m getting red again aren’t I?”

-       3/4 Dr. C: “Oh man, Katie, you missed a great performance.”  [Wynfrey, and I didn’t miss anything!]

-       3/18 Dr. C: “I’ll wear my tuxedo pants and my Starbucks turtleneck” Katie Mo: “Will you wear a beret and snap?” Dr C: “Maybe for you.”

-       3/21 Dr. C: “No breath after the word ‘inside.’” Nancy: “So we can’t breathe for the last two pages?” Dr. C: “That’s not what I said, Nancy.  Everybody, let’s come up with a name for Nancy today.”

-       3/26 Haec Linc: “He just said he was doing it with men!” Dr C: “You can’t make fun of me unless you’re getting your part right.”

-       4/3 Dr. C: “Try to be cupid.  Can you wiggle your head?...Don’t wiggle that, Linc!”

-       4/16 [to Jennifer Thorp] “You’re going to get knocked up at an early age. …What? It’s true, you’re from Hueytown.”

-       4/22 Madison: “Patris….sorry, that was my fault.” Dr. C: “okay, well, I’ll shoot you.”

 

Copelandisms from other people:

-       10/1 DebIII Cherith “That’s not puberty.”

-       10/8 Rose Erin: “If you’re gonna die, do it BIG.”

-       10/17 Rose Erin: “I’m doing it for you; you’re the ones that are gonna run out of air!  I don’t have to breathe.  Well, I mean, I have to breathe, but… OKAY.”

-       DebII Whitney: “Okay, well as long as I still have the solo.”

-       1/23 Brahms Mrs. Reynolds “This is a place where you really have to strap it on.”

-       3/3 SoT Lindsey: “I just read on the paper where it says “ritard with conviction””

-       3/19 Martin: “SHOUT!  Jeh-sus!”

-       3/19 Haec Brian Denton: “We came in but then we got off.”

-       3/25 Linc: “A little sectional healing.”

-       3/28 Kelli Parks: “I like going down.”

-       3/30 RiverchaseMeth Dr. Reynolds “They are spread out like tentacles across the community.”

-       3/30 RiverchaseMeth Dr. Reynolds “At the end of the Shutz, I’m gonna look at you and give you the finger.”

-       4/2 Haec Jon Hood: “I don’t know if you mean for it to sound ‘girl-heavy.’”

-       3/2 at SHPC, the Scottish preacher “the tragedy of 7/11”