“I am suspicious of teachers who claim to have invented the only successful method of bringing out the best in young performers, of theorists who claim to have invented a unique approach to analysis, or of historians who wish to reduce all the developments of the musical style of the past entirely to the determinism of social conditions.”
Charles Rosen
“Everyone is our teacher. We can learn from each person on what to do and what not to do – to live our life to the fullest.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.”
Paul Murray Kendall
“Talk in a normal voice. Terrorists are suspicious of whispering.”
Stanley Klein
“I've always been suspicious of collective truths.”
Eugene Ionesco
“Be suspicious of anything that works perfectly - it's probably because two errors are canceling each other out”
Dave Bartley
“I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.”
Morton Feldman
