Bacon Quote by Carlisle Floyd

Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though…

— Simon Rattle

“The trombone and side-drums in the chamber music of Stravinsky will do well enough in a very smart house-party where all the conversation is…

— Donald Francis Tovey

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

— Steve Lacy

My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open…

— Carrie Mae Weems

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

— T. S. Eliot

I have always loved composers who have been connected with folk traditions of popular music.

— Ludovico Einaudi

The thing I realised about composition is, we remember most composers for four bars of music. Four singable bars of music. Pretty much any…

— Bryce Dessner

I loved a lot of the romantic composers.

— Alice Merton

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

— Richard Armour

“The woman’s entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations.”

— Gillian Flynn

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right…

— Freddie Hubbard

The study of music was a family interest.

— Emanuel Celler