10 Virtuoso Quotes for You to Enjoy

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Narcissism Control Virtuoso Distilled Total Charm Risk-Taking Delusion Over Terror Years Cunning Personal Many Showmanship Spectacle

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background. Twyla Tharp

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work. Jason Mraz

Work Journey Me You Sometimes My Journey Singing Own Virtuoso Way Laugh Tried Hopes See Through Songwriter Know Instrument Audience Always Reflected Pitch Shows Lives Bring Honest

I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it. Russell Crowe

Character Job Whatever Virtuoso Scene Absolutely Go Confident Required Actor

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. Andres Segovia

Writing Guitar Circle Virtuoso Composers Were Began Vicious

I started classical piano when I was eight, but I wasn't a virtuoso. I just really liked it. Julia Holter

Virtuoso Classical Piano Liked Just Eight Really Started

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se. Mick Jones

Guitar Virtuoso Guitar Player Per Never Really Player

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music. Mickey Hart

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. Robert Moog

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style! Ken Hensley

Music Crazy You Style Own Others Virtuoso Musician Unable Classical Classical Music My Own Mentioned Write Never Developed Like Read Learned Because Am Just Them Play