Instrument/music

Famous quotes containing the words instrument and/or music:

“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)