Epoch Quote by Pierre Boulez

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

— Charles Hazlewood

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great,…

— Jessye Norman

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

— Jonathan Rado

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may…

— John Blacking

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

— George Gershwin

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

— Ornette Coleman

The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.

— Robert Fripp

Sound is everything to a musician.

— John Densmore

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse…

— Herbie Hancock

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but…

— Yehudi Menuhin

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin