If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

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• Johann Sebastian Bach:

  It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right ti

• Andrew Lloyd Webber:

  It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

• Claude Debussy:

  Music is the silence between the notes.

• Vangelis:

  My father was in property, but he was a great lover of music.

• Franz Liszt:

  Truth is a great flirt.

• Pierre Schaeffer:

  Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization.

• Franz Schubert:

  The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

• Richard Strauss:

  Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a short glance to give an important cue.

• Keith Jarrett:

  I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

• Robert Schumann:

  To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.