"The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing."

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Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

Helene Grimaud

#Pieces Quotes #Way Quotes #Abstract Quotes

“No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, youâ€™d be more productive.”
“Two of the last four executive editors at the New York Times were Johannesburg bureau chiefs at some point, Bill Keller and Joe Lelyveld. This is a very prestigious post and I was like I don't know 28 years old, which at the Times is very young, I had the temerity to put my hand up for that job. I don't think I slept a single night of those six weeks that I spent in Johannesburg. It was an unbelievable experience, and I think I did okay.”
“But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.”
“He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.”
“The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.”
“Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.”
“One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.”

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