Carlo Grante famous quotes

Classical music, fortunately or not, unfolds in time. It's not like a picture you can stare at for 10 seconds or 10 hours. You need the minimum amount of education and training, and society needs to find a way to study music - not only the performances, but how to compose, how to understand why Mozart was great at what he did.
-- Carlo Grante

#Training #Needs #Way

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.
-- Carlo Grante

#Granted #Results #Music Is

The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.
-- Carlo Grante

#Interesting #Essentials #Variation

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
-- Carlo Grante

#Strong #Grammar #Music Is

Some pianists seem to really remember the keys and not so much the notes they play. They want to learn until it's a physical habit that can be replicated. For pianists, this is much more of a problem than for other instruments, like the violin, where you actually have to think of the pitch.
-- Carlo Grante

#Thinking #Keys #Play

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.