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Music Quotes - Page 11

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

"Quotes: Ray Charles in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2004.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.