Millie music-related quotes

› My mother wanted me to be a lawyer—a lawyer or a minister.
› about learning with repetition: “You learn breathing pretty quickly, right? Otherwise you’ve got about five minutes.”
› We’re not gonna make you learn to read music. That would be an interesting procedure, but…no.
› That would just be humongously huge.
› When words and music come together, music rules.
› Music is powerful, like drugs.
› We are music.
› We just took it (the word “tempo”) lock, stock, and barrel from Italian.
› Course I can’t talk and play the right note at the same time.
› I’m not a doctor by any stretch of the imagination.
› You don’t have to learn 26…actually you have to learn 88.
› Eventually we run out of breath permanently.
› After that the party is OVER!!
› Anybody here turned on by the idea of death?
› You turning us all into music majors?
› Use your Italian accent. No!!
› It’s very dumb, actually.
› I also cheat a little bit, but I won’t explain how.
› This a piece he actually wrote…
› I’ll play it very nice, but boring.
› Musicians are like everyone else—we abbreviate things.
› We have to be David Letterman.
› I knew it was coming, but it still struck me as funny.
› I don’t crack up the way I do with Haydn.
› Mozart and Bach—that’s perfection.