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
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
It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion. — Vijay Iyer 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
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
“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed… — Samantha Dunn 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
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
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
What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music.… — Mickey Hart 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
“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
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
There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of… — Anthony Braxton 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
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics… — F. Sionil José 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
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
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
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
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
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