"So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure."

-- Vienna Teng

#Climbing Quotes #Piano Quotes #House Quotes

“The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. Â If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.”
“Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.”
“If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising directly from a problem, but also of those arising in subsequent analysis, generalization, and specialization.”

Source : "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.
“Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of course music is philosophically fascinating. What it is for music to express emotion strikes me as one of the most difficult questions - it's hard to say what it precisely means, although it plainly does mean something. But whenever I have tried to say something about this, it has come out as either banal or pretentious or both.”
“I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.”
“Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”
“God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.”
“Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.”

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