I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)  , when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley (1935-1977) 

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani 

If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
Gustav Holst  , on amateur music-making

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
Dawn French 

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
Edward O. Wilson 

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler 

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977) 

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa 

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
Jules Combarieu