“As a musician you can cover everything. I'm not just a concert pianist.”

— Joanna MacGregor

The Irish News, 22/01/2005
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British musician 1959

George Antheil (1900–1959) American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor

“I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.”

Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007) Italian operatic tenor

On his charity concerts and relief efforts for Bosnia, in BBC Music Magazine (April 1998)

“I'm bent on proving that you can make living as musician and not die young and crazy like Mozart.”

John Cale (1942) Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

Attributed without citation at John Cale - Quotes, xs4all.nl, 16 November 2012 http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/quotes/index.html,

“You can give music variation without changing the notes. When you get close to a piece there will inevitable be tinkering. I sometimes wonder if concert pianists expend so much effort and energy finding new ways to interpret that what they really need is some more direct form of self-expression.”

Joanna MacGregor (1959) British musician

Denver Post, 18/02/2005
On Classical Music

“I'm not a musician; I'm a screamer.”

Randy Blythe (1971) American musician

Making of Sacrament DVD

“The times are tough now, just getting tougher.
This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher.
Cover me, come on baby, cover me.
Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me.”

Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter

"Cover Me"
Song lyrics, Born in the U.S.A. (1984)

“(about her concert in North Korea) "The concert was full of government officials. Every single last seat. It was invitation only, but it was an unbelievable experience. Frightening and exhilarating at the same time. And I just thought about how lucky I am. I am so fortunate to be a musician, and at that moment, I genuinely felt that music is the one and only universal language."”

Sarah Chang (1980) violinist

Newsweek September 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14870541/site/newsweek/?page=6

“The main thing is not to lose your identity and to continue working … You have a quartet. That is such joy! You can forget everything else in the world. I'm playing a lot of chamber music these days. Tomorrow we were going to give the first performance of two trios, but because of the mourning, all concerts have been canceled.”

David Oistrakh (1908–1974) Soviet violinist

The Night Stalin Died http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/05/magazine/the-night-stalin-died.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias:r&pagewanted=2, New York Times (March 5, 1989).

“I hate analyzing stuff. I do the bare minimum. When it comes to interpretation, I just play it and go from there. I think emotion is everything. When you get the notes, you've just scratched the surface. The best things happen spontaneously, on stage. I'm doing three concerts here; I guarantee that none of them will be the same. We're not machines.”

Sarah Chang (1980) violinist

JS online 1999 http://www2.jsonline.com/enter/performingarts/strini/jun99/chang03060299.asp

“Interesting pianist, but I think he is just a little bit meshuga.”

Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989) American classical pianist and composer

On Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music

“As a musician you can cover everything. I'm not just a concert pianist.”

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