Choice Quote by Stephen Hough

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole…

— David Finckel

I think every classically trained film composer feels to some extent, maybe on some level, that they took the low road, that they could…

— James Newton Howard

Right from the 17th century, composers who have taken up music as their means of livelihood went through a hard time financially. They were…

— Ilaiyaraaja

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

— Rick Wakeman

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that…

— Mitski

I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write…

— Phil Keoghan

The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous…

— Michael Hersch

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for…

— Pete Seeger

I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and…

— Ian Anderson

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it…

— Rick Springfield

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

— Joe Louis Walker

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties…

— Eleanor Roosevelt