It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion. — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
“It's not a bad thing to play second fiddle if the first chair is a virtuoso.” — J.T. Sather Copy Share Image
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
A genius! For 37 years I've practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! — Pablo de Sarasate Copy Share Image
I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17. — Donovan Copy Share Image
Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
If people are given the right circumstances and the right track and the right melody, it's about the conviction. It's not necessarily… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin.… — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
“A motivação facilita o sucesso. Por sua vez, a conquista do sucesso reforça a motivação. É um círculo virtuoso.” — António Estanqueiro Copy Share Image
It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws,… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I… — Ken Hensley Copy Share Image
It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit… — Dave Stevens Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“So sentences are copied, constructed, or created; they are uttered, mentioned, or used; each says, means, implies, reveals, connects; each titillates, invites,… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“The overall best is created when what is created is created just for the sheer fun of creating.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
“Virtuoso? Are you serious? What kind of code name is that? Who's assigning code names these days? They should be shot. How… — Elizabeth Bevarly Copy Share Image
EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
At the piano, scales, arpeggios And chords, the morning exercises, The afternoon's reading, the night's reflection, That's how to produce a virtuoso. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I… — James Iha Copy Share Image
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
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