Christopher Robin Milne Quotes

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.

I've always loved the song 'It Might as Well Be Spring'.

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

I always think about stuff I learned, in any scene. Juilliard taught me a lot.

I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

See, I have two selves in me - a musician and a composer.

I really know how to sing and create and put things together that entertain... be it controversially or be it from music or acting.

If you look at most of our roster, we've got great singer/songwriters. I'm always attracted to that.

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

Songwriting isn't a choice. You're either called upon to bear the burden, or you're not. It's not all fun and games.

I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

I'm just a human whose skill is making music.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Being a musician, there aren't that many ways for me to consciously use a more strategy, math-based part of my brain.

The best of any artist is in their art.

Sid Lowe is someone I respect in the league. Knows the game, knows how to teach, great teacher.

I never jump on to a song and say 'I will only sing it.' I am not too obsessed as a singer. I am happy being a composer.

I think that was always my strength. I was never a great player, but I could write.

I'm a composer like every maestro on this earth.