Musician Quote by Virgil Thomson Download Open image “Musicians own music because music owns them.” — Virgil Thomson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Musician
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians. — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will. — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the… — Moby Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and,… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
