„But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.“
— Mark Heard American musician and record producer 1951 - 1992
„Nothing is more difficult than talking about music: if it is a prickly business for musicians, it is almost impossible for anyone else—the strongest, subtlest minds go astray.“
— Camille Saint-Saëns, “L’illusion wagnérienne”, Portraits et souvenirs, Société d’édition artistique, 1899, 206‒220
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„The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death“
— Irenaeus Bishop and saint 130 - 202
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„There is nothing more regenerating than music.“
— Epifanio de los Santos Filipino politician 1871 - 1928
Philippine Free Press. Manila. April 28, 1928.
„Do not let anyone else run your business.“
— Benjamin Graham American investor 1894 - 1976
Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 286
„Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.“
— Louis Armstrong American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer 1901 - 1971
„There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.“
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
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„Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere if they are serious about this music... The is no valid motivation for it other than love– outlaw motivation in a profit-motivated society.“
— Mike Zwerin American jazz musician 1930 - 2010
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„It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.“
— Jean Sibelius Finnish composer of the late Romantic period 1865 - 1957
Bengt de Törne Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber, 1937), p. 94.
Usually quoted as "Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art."
„Business, after all, is nothing more than a bunch of human relationships.“
— Lee Iacocca American businessman 1924
„Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination.“
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
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„Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.“
— Steve Martin American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer 1945
„The musician is as rich as the music they give away.“
— Robert Fripp English guitarist, composer and record producer 1946
„But a musician or someone who's into music is different.“
— Katie Melua British singer-songwriter 1984
Context: I don't think I could see myself with someone who's famous. I don't like the lifestyle and everything it stands for. Too superficial. That attention is too much. For me to go home and be surrounded by that sounds like a fucking nightmare. But a musician or someone who's into music is different.
„Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset.“
— Claude Debussy French composer 1862 - 1918
Context: Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little — the book of Nature.
As quoted in The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (1996) by Don Michael Randel