“Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.”
-George Gershwin [26 September 1898 - 11 July 1937]
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“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
-Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов (Sergei Rachmaninov) [1 April 1873 - 28 March 1943]
“People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.”
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791]
“Don't cry for me, for I go where music is born.”
-Johann Sebastian Bach [31 March 1685 - 28 July 1750]
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”
-Frédéric Chopin [1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849]
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“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets.”
-Ludwig Van Beethoven [December 1770 - 26 March 1827]