Belly/music

Famous quotes containing the words belly and/or music:

“The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)