Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

Robertson Davies

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

William Lilly

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

Leonard Slatkin

Ultimately, music is a possessive mistress.

Paul Gauguin

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Oscar Levant

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

Elizabeth I

I will have but one mistress and no master

Prince Charles

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Warren Zevon

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

Vikram Seth

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Yoko Ono

Music is like my security blanket.

Jose Carreras

Music isn't only a profession.

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Neil Young

Live music is better.

Natalia Kills

I make music because I like making music.