Villa Lobos Quotes

#1. My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.

Leonard Slatkin

#2. Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Igor Stravinsky

#3. Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Philip Slater

#4. The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.

Anonymous

#5. If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

#6. At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.

Melina Marchetta

#7. The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

Heitor Villa-Lobos

#8. Do not despair whatever happens for behind the clouds is always the rainbow.

L. Frank Baum

#9. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the ...

Malcolm X

#10. I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best

Jerry Lee Lewis

#11. I love books, they're in my blood.

Karen Marie Moning

#12. I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.

Heitor Villa-Lobos