"I had an affinity for music and could play anything I heard on the piano, but I wasn't scholastically advanced in any way. It was more of a habitual tendency. I would work on weekends at piano bars playing jazz when I was an art student, but the music wasn't mine - it was covers: everything from Radiohead to really old jazz. But other than that, the only training I had was piano lessons from when I was nine until I was eleven."

-- Melody Gardot

#Art Quotes #Weekend Quotes #Training Quotes

“Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.”
“Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.”
“To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd do for nothing.”
“In the world today , itâ€™s easy to quit. I believe in putting up the fight.”
“This place is like crazy on crackers.”
“Music proposes. Sound disposes.”

Source : Babette Deutsch (1969). “The collected poems”
“I think I am pretty much melancholic.”
“I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.”

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