"A lot of my approach to the instrument, especially as I've gotten older, is to treat the piano in ways that are not very pianistic - to consider the sounds I'm after first, and to deal with technical considerations later."

-- Michael Hersch

#Piano Quotes #Way Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.”
“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
“I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. â€”Jane Gardiner”
“Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.”
“Millions of angels are at God's command.”
“An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.27, New York Review of Books
“Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.”
“I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.”

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