Famous quotes containing the words master and/or musicians:
“He may have been a master of his fate,
And of his atoms,ready as another
In his emergence to exonerate
His father and his mother;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (18691935)
“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.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)