“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
"Such a Quiet Man (original song!)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HA6bri22Tk, the first original song she posted to YouTube, about which she wrote: "I got bored so I wrote this song tonight. The music, instruments, the lyrics, backup vocals, everything was me. And yes it is TOTALLY WEIRD!!!!!!" (13 May 2007)
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
“If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Italian composer
Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica.
Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90
An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Aaron Copland (1900–1990) American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
“I'm never going to stop making music. I couldn't.”
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
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“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”
Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle
Source: The Tenth Circle
“When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't…”
Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer
Source: Candy
“Rock n roll stops the traffic”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
Message spray-painted onto the Vaillancourt fountain during a free concert in San Francisco (11 November 1987)