"I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people."

-- Vijay Iyer

#Player Quotes #People Quotes #Empowering Quotes

“He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.”

Source : Anne Stuart (2005). “Black Ice”, Mira Books
“There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.”
“Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.”
“Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.”
“Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.”
“A good style fits like a good costume.”
“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.”
“A firm, therefore, consists of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur... As a firm gets larger, there may be decreasing returns to the entrepreneur function, that is, the costs of organising additional transactions within the firm may rise.”

Source : "The nature of the firm" by Ronald Coase in Economica, Volume 4, No. 16 (p. 393), onlinelibrary.wiley.com. November 1937.

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