"Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret."

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Source : Kathleen Thompson Norris (1914). “Saturday's Child”

Kathleen Norris

#Secret Quotes #Position Quotes

“Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.”

Source : Leopold Auer (1960). “Violin Playing as I Teach it”, p.69, Courier Corporation
“I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.”
“I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which the General Motors settlement was branded as being inflationary and bad for the country.”
“If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe its inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.”
“And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know. And what I knew - of course I knew jazz, but I also knew country, blues and some rock and roll. And that came out.”
“He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.186, Simon and Schuster
“It would be nice to really shed the corsets.”
“We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ”

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