"I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts."

-- Hazel Scott

#Thinking Quotes #Musician Quotes #Converting Quotes

“Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT.”
“I'm ingrained in a lot of - almost too many - causes and struggles around the world because that's where I come from.”

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“It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.”
“See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.”
“If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.”
“I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.”
“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”
“My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it.”

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