"There's a substantial portion of my recorded repertoire that was learned for the recording sessions, and then basically forgotten. I wouldn't say it's the majority, but it's a fairly good chunk of it."

-- Marc-Andre Hamelin

#Majority Quotes #Forgotten Quotes #Portions Quotes

“So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.”
“Well, one measure of a good life, I think, is to be engaged in projects that one thinks are meaningful and worthwhile. So I would put the emphasis of a good life on activity, on the walk rather than the destination, and I think that most of the things that any of us do that are really valuable and really important are projects that we really shouldn't expect to be completed in our lifetime because if they could completed in our lifetime, they probably wouldn't be so important that we should devote our lives to them.”
“There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"”
“It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.”
“The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was the person who did academics until the middle of the day, then went on auditions. I think there was a moment later in my life where I was like, "What am I doing? Why am I so serious?" .”
“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”
“Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.”

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