“Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.” SaidBeautifulMusicianBrilliantComprehensiveColossusRossini Author:Charles Gounod
“I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. The fun of playing an assassin is that I've never killed anybody. The fun of playing a brilliant musician is that I don't actually play any instruments.” DoePlayFunStuffMusicianInstrumentsBrilliantAssassins Author:Eric McCormack
“I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.” WritingI CanPlaySongKeysMusicianMy FriendsGuitarBrilliant Author:Jim Sturgess
“It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.” MusicianStudiosBrilliantEngineersMoonlight Author:Dave Grohl
“I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.” WantI CanMusicianBrilliant Author:Miles Davis
“On tour things go wrong all the time, I mean that's live music, that's what it's all about. I think one of the things I'm learning is that when stuff goes wrong, really brilliant musicians have the ability to turn this into something interesting and unique. I think good people in any sphere of anything know how to deal with problems, how to take it in your stride. We are learning this by touring, by being put in these positions when we need to focus and deal with it.” PeopleThinkingMeanProblemAbilityInterestingFocusMusicianUniqueBrilliantGood PeopleSomething Interesting Author:Joey Badass
“I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.” ThinkingBookReadingPoorAchieveMountainMusicianBrilliantQuitting Author:Regine Chassagne
“A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.” MatterMomentsAbleSongOrderUniverseStarsCreationStrangeCreaturesMusicianHarmonyDistanceBrilliantSingersRhythmHostRootedOverwhelmedAngelicMeg Book:A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy