“The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.”
Claude Debussy
“I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.”
Christopher Hampton
“I decided years ago that I wasn't interested in being a virtuoso of the piano.”
Herbie Hancock
“[He] is one of those virtuoso guitar players. Sometimes I equate him to the flamenco Jimi Hendrix. You get this kind of amplified electric acoustic sound.”
Wally Ingram
“So, who needs pantomime for laughs when we have politics?”
Helena Dalli
“The most hazardous part of our expedition to Africa was crossing Piccadilly Circus.”
Joseph Thomson
“Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.”
Ben Hecht
