Famous quotes containing the words master and/or musicians:
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“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)