Famous quotes containing the words master and/or musicians:
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
—Martin Heidegger (18891976)
“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)