"Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level."

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Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

David Finckel

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“True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.”

Source : William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”
“I have a writerâ€™s concentration: intense, but flickering.”
“Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.”
“I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.”
“Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.”
“I'm sorry, Dite." Dite shrugged away the apology. "You have spared my brother when you could have killed him and you have offered me escape from the cesspit of my family and this court. You know what it means to me, to make music in the court of Ferria. You've put a purse and an impossible dream in my hand. I don't know why you should apologize." "Because I am exiling you, Dite. I intend to raze your patrimony and salt its earth. You emphatically do not need to thank me.”
“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.”
“I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.”

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