Quotes on Classical Music

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

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.