"Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven."

-- Gregor Piatigorsky

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“When we are artists, researchers, or writers, we choose what we do with our time, who we talk to. Of course we have commitments, but the amount of freedom we have with what to do or what to research is humongous compared to others.”
“In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.”
“At the end of every year, I add up the time that I have spent on the phone on hold and subtract it from my age. I don't count that time as really living. I spend more and more time on hold each year. By the time I die, I'm going to be quite young.”
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
“I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.”
“It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.”
“That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.”
“My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.”

Source : "Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed". Interview with Danny Riley, thequietus.com. September 13, 2016.

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