"I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand."

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Source : "Caio Fonseca Comes Out Of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

Caio Fonseca

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“Negativity is never an option”
“The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.”
“I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin
“They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.”
“Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out.”
“As bad as I disagreed on stuff, I wanted to get a technical foul, but I didn't. When guys on the team see me get technical fouls, it tends to trickle down to the team. I just took it and dealt with it.”
“That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.”
“How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?”

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