"If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe."

-- John Corigliano

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“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.”
“Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig.”
“IÂ´m a real believer that just doing a little something is a lot better than doing a lot of nothing.”
“People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.”
“Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.”
“I often say that good crisis management is good decision-making under stress.”
“The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.”
“If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.”

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