Conductors by John L. Holmes (1988) pp 256-261 ISBN 0-575-04088-2
"Do Infant Prodigies Become Great Musicians?", Music & Letters (Apr., 1935)
“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”
“The musician is as rich as the music they give away.”
Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988
“But a musician or someone who's into music is different.”
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.
Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 93.
Context: A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. This term, first coined by Kurt Goldstein, is being used in this paper in a much more specific and limited fashion. It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.
Il y a deux musiques: une petite, mesquine, de second ordre, partout semblable à elle-même, qui repose sur une centaine de phrases que chaque musicien s'approprie, et qui constitue un bavardage plus ou moins agréable avec lequel vivent la plupart des compositeurs.
Massimilla Doni http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Massimilla_Doni (1839), translated by Clara Bell and James Waring
“I always had one goal, and that was to become a musician. I had no other choice.”
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
