"When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist."

-- Nina Simone

#Music Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.”
“When I showed â€˜Black and the Red IIIâ€™ in MalmÃ¶, Sweden, it was a continuum- a band- all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in MalmÃ¶, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe lâ€™oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from â€˜Black and the Red IIIâ€™ and continued that on the wall.”
“Do not have any anxiety about anything.”
“It's a fact the whole world knows, That Pobbles are happier without their toes.”

Source : Edward Lear, Edward Mendelson, Laura Huliska-Beith (2001). “Edward Lear”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
“The easy way out is often just that-the 'easy' way out of the most rewarding lifestyle.”
“When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff.”
“The history of a city was like the history of a familyâ€”there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writerâ€™s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.”
“Beer may cause you to digress - and lead a happier life.”

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