Artsy Quotes

[Chris Kolupski]

What a neat thread. Here are two music quotes from sources I have forgotten:

[Mike McCarty]

An old acomplished artist once said of my work: "It dies of borning." Refering to a passage that I had worked to death.

[Tom Edgerton]

Speaking of the synergy of music and painting....

Once Miles Davis overheard a musician knocking another for being too derivative--too much an unoriginal reflection of his influences--and in an uncharacteristically (for him) generous moment, said:

"Well, it takes a long time to learn to play like yourself."