Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Virgil Thomson Quote: 'Musicians own music because music owns ...'

Related Quotes

cyprus petra tou romiou
Nobody owns me or my music.


Ziggy Marley
Tags: Music Me Nobody
I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
Robert Wyatt
Tags: Music People Just
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.


Harlan Coben
Tags: Best Because Only
Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
Kurt Masur
Tags: Family People Me
Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
Billy Corgan
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
Toru Takemitsu
I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.
Marc Ribot
If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.
Grover Norquist
Tags: You People Like
Whereas a competitive firm must sell at the market price, a monopoly owns its market, so it can set its own prices. Since it has no competition, it produces at the quantity and price combination that maximizes its profits.
Peter Thiel
Tags: Own Must Since
I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.
Sophie Hunger
Tags: Music Me Always
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.


Gyorgy Ligeti
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
Serj Tankian
The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
Marketa Irglova
Tags: Music Power Me
water sea surf wave ocean splash
I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.


Wynton Marsalis
Tags: Music People Just
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
St. Vincent
Tags: Music People Like
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
Rosanna Arquette
Tags: Great Music Sad
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
Robert Wyatt
Tags: Work Like Them
When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.
George Clinton
Tags: Music People Know
water sea turquoise ripple texture
When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.


Megan Fox
Tags: You Your World