Famous quotes containing the words master and/or musicians:
“To be one’s own master is to be the slave of self.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)