Famous quotes containing the words master and/or musicians:
“Better to master a small skill than to accumulate a big fortune.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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)