Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps…

I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all…

— Count Basie

When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what…

— Quincy Jones

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

— Paul Kagame

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

— Elena Ferrante

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini…

— Carlo Grante

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used…

— Dave Brubeck

I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor…

— Susan Choi

Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

— Rafal Blechacz

“Now and again an echo of Chopin’s music rings in my ears, and this much you absorb me that, at such moments I always…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

— Daniel Tammet

They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines…

— Stephen Hough