"I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well."

-- Yo-Yo Ma

#Thinking Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.”
“What are the rules," The cop said. "There are none." Vishous spread his stance and braced himself. "Do whatever you want...but you have to break me. You've got to tear me apart.”
“Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.”
“I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.”

Source : "Unconditional Love: Remembering My Grandmother" by Andre Leon Talley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2013.
“I believe if I refuse to grow old, I can stay young 'til I die.”
“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”
“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.”

Source : Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2008). “The Love Dare”, p.11, B&H Publishing Group
“Empowerment is a thing that you earn over time - as you overcome obstacles, learn, and accomplish things, you become empowered. Empowerment is not a thing that you are born with and that the parent's job is to get out of the way of. Empowerment is a thing that you earn. And some of that is that you become empowered by knowing that you were disempowered or by knowing that there were tremendous limits on what you were able to do, as a young person.”

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