Funny Quote by Victor Borge

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians:…

— Bill Bruford

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

Music was not invented by the composer, but found.

— Nadia Boulanger

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

— John Muir

Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

— Edward Abbey

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

— Thomas Beecham

Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well…

— Christian Wiman

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

— Richard Wagner

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A…

— Aleksey Igudesman

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with…

— Robert Schumann