"You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Catherine Brady

#Play Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Creative Quotes

“A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.”
“Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a stray canary had fluttered into her house and mine, in two widely separated countries. Oh, Lolita, had you love me thus!”
“On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.”
“What I am after, above all, is expression.”
“Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.”
“The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.”

Source : 'The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts' (1612) 'The Silver Swan'
“I am a friend to any brave and gallant outlaw.”
“We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again”

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