"The Quick and the Daft"

I listened to Out of the Blue a few days ago and noticed that the music in "The Quick and the Daft" (included as a bonus track) sort of mirrors the title.  As I noted before, the title seems to be adapted from the phrase "the quick and the dead" (that is:  "the living and the dead"), and this contrast is illustrated in the music by shorter or longer note values.  The shorter note values give a lively or even frantic impression, and the longer note values provide a sense of repose.

"The Quick and the Daft"

This morning I was looking at the texts in Cherubini's Solemn Mass in G major for the Coronation of Louis XVIII, and I remembered something I'd long ago realized about "The Quick and the Daft" (an instrumental bonus track on the re-issue of Out of the Blue).  The title seems to come from either the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.  Cherubini's Mass includes the Nicene Creed, where one of the lines is: Jesus "shall come again with glory to judge the quick and the dead," but there's a similar line in the Apostles' Creed, which is older.  The title of the ELO song simply changes "dead" to "daft."