"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down."

-- Virgil Thomson

#Musician Quotes

“Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy.”
“The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.”
“All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.”
“Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.”
“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”
“I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."”

Source : Source: collider.com

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