"I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa."

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Source : Eleanor Bron (1985). “The Pillow Book of Eleanor Bron, Or, an Actress Despairs”

Eleanor Bron

#Music Quotes #People Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.”
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
“Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked.”
“Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.”
“I've also always known that I wouldn't be playing for the N.B.A.”
“He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.”

Source : "The Gold and the Blue, Volume One: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Academic Triumphs".
“Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.”
“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”

Source : Letter to Isaac Goldberg in "The Memory of All That" by Joan Peyser (p. 80), 1993.

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