Academic Quote by George Steiner

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the…

— Howard Snell

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

— Herbie Hancock

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he…

— Mircea Eliade

“For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at…

— Alex Ross

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism…

— Anthony Braxton

“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to…

— Tom Bissell

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate…

— Ethan Canin

“No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth--fueled…

— Kurt Cobain

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.…

— Steve Vai