Virtuosi Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that… — John Dryden
• I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi. — Frederic Chopin
• The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great… — Gustav Mahler
• Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand… — Horace
• Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice;… — Terry Eagleton
• Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other.… — H. L. Mencken
• Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and… — Henry Louis Mencken
• The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuosi and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. — Kenneth Miller

Who Wrote These Virtuosi Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Virtuosi Quotes as follows:

• 1 Virtuosi Quote by Frederic Chopin
• 1 Virtuosi Quote by Gustav Mahler
• 1 Virtuosi Quote by Horace
• 1 Virtuosi Quote by Terry Eagleton
• 1 Virtuosi Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Virtuosi Quote by Henry Louis Mencken
• 1 Virtuosi Quote by Kenneth Miller
• 1 Virtuosi Quote by John Dryden