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Manny Laureano

"His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too much vibrato. It's like putting bright red lipstick on a beautiful woman.' I always thought it was funny that when you broke a musical rule-like accenting a weak beat-he would turn his head away from you sharply, almost as though he were in pain. It's like you just slapped him in the face by being unmusical."

-- Manny Laureano

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“There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.”
“The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”
“Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.24, University of Georgia Press
“I can tell you what women need in general. They need respect and love. They need to be able to trust your word and to be able to confide in you. So often, we can't care for ourselves in this world, so we need protection and provision.”

Source : Tracie Peterson (2010). “Twilight's Serenade (Song of Alaska Book #3)”, p.160, Bethany House
“Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions of people, but I can design the music so that it's exactly right for you and only you at this particular moment for your particular experience, things that have happened to you over 20 years, to you're particular mental state right now.”
“As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel.”
“If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.”
“America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.”

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