Art Quote by Buddy Rich

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

— Oscar Peterson

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

— Gunther Schuller

When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He…

— Ayn Rand

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

— Michael Parkinson

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

— John Philip Sousa

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster

I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.

— Stromae

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.

— Duke Ellington

It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.

— Darius Milhaud

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

— Miles Davis

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

— David Amram