- "I am no man's bosom." - Finn from Adventure Time
- "Competition is for horses, not artists." - Bela Bartok
- "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams." - From “Ode” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy
- "If music be the food of love, play on." - William Shakespeare
- "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." - Max Lucado
- "Use such talents as you possess; for the woods would be very silent indeed if no birds sang except the best." - Henry van Dyke
- "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." - Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
- "There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major." - Sergei Prokofiev
- "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." - Candide
- "How embarrassing it is to be human." - Kurt Vonnegut
- “Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
- Franz Kafka
- "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." - Gustav Mahler
jun 8 2012 ∞
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