“When I was a little boy, I told my dad, ‘When I grow up, I want to be a musician.’ My dad said: ‘You can’t do both, Son’.” – Chet Atkins

“When a piece gets difficult, make faces.” – Artur Schnabel

“When people ask me what ‘American Pie’ means, I tell them it means I don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to.” – Don McLean

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley

“Competitions are for horses, not artists.” – Bela Bartok

“Dogs smoke in France.” – Ozzy Osbourne

“Ich sage immer, ein Kleinkind muss darauf tanzen können, sonst hat es keinen Sinn.” – Helge Schneider

“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.” – Frank Zappa

“Anybody can be a drummer.” – Angie Dickinson

“If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn’t you? “Would you like some breadsticks?” “No, thank you, I don’t play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I’ll have a drum roll.”” – George Carlin