"I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical."

-- Harry Connick, Jr.

#Philosophical Quotes #Player Quotes #Piano Quotes

“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Source : "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.
“What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?”
“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
“Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home.”
“Branding is overrated.”
“Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.”
“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.”

Source : "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, p. 351, 2002.
“For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.”

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