"Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time."

-- Pablo Casals

#Music Quotes #Careers Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Random violence is incredibly infectious”
“It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.”
“The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.”
“He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.”
“America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.”
“It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.”
“I don't really... go to 'the opening of an envelope.' I don't really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I'm involved, I'll go, and if there's a good friend who needs support, I'll go, but otherwise... I don't go. I'm probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.”
“I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.”

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