I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan…

A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He…

— Ottorino Respighi

[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining…

— Nat Hentoff

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's…

— Douglas Adams

Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget…

— Herbie Hancock

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“In reply to 'Do you think your old music is better?': If I did, I would have quit music altogether. You should never put…

— Patrick Stump

I actually quit music and I thought maybe I chose the wrong career. But, I isolated myself in a cabin in the woods for…

— Skylar Grey

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

— Dave Grohl

I think I'm probably gonna quit music.

— Justin Bieber

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I…

— Jack Black

“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music,…

— Roman Payne

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

— Dan Fogelberg

I had to quit everything. I had to give it all for music.

— Gunna

I quit music and decided I was going to work a 9-to-5 job in advertising... which in New York City is more like, 8-to-7.

— Michelle Zauner

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not…

— Philip Glass