"If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that they involve different skill sets, but I don't think that's true: whether playing Ives or Bach or Beethoven, you must bring the same imagination, the same sensitivity, and an ability to deal with same kinds of musical problems. The method behind my madness, anyway, is to keep plugging away at this idea."

-- Jeremy Denk

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“No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”
“Look, we ought to do this for our kidsâ€¦ We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here â€” theyâ€™re all our kids â€” gets a good high school education.”

Source : "Why you should care about other people’s kids". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2015.
“If Obama was white, heâ€™d be up by 17 points.”
“I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.”
“Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.”
“You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.90, Random House
“In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.”
“Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.”

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