"When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story."

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Source : FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 08, 2015

Joshua Bell

#Play Quotes #Stories Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.”
“I'll sleep when I'm dead.”

Source : Song: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
“My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.”
“The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.”

Source : William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster
“I can't really speak to what it was like to call yourself a feminist in the past on a personal level but I think calling oneself a feminist in the past may have been inimical because feminists in the '70s were the first to really challenge deeply embedded gender roles and demand concrete political and economic rights. They were asking for rights that seemed like a direct threat to those in power - they were asking for equality in a society that didn't have it in an obvious way. They were put down and villainized because they were seen as threatening.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“There never was a revelation without a question first.”
“But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.”
“First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.”

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