Famous quotes containing the words master and/or musicians:
“As master of the universe, need he fear a master?”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“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)