"Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chungâ€™s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out againâ€¦in Messiaen, a feeling for the musicâ€™s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance."

-- Donal Henahan

#Piano Quotes #Sobriety Quotes #Missing Quotes

“Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.”
“They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one”
“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
“I never was a person that wanted that life...I'm a leader not a follower. I don't care what they say, or what they're doing or what they're wearing. Go ahead, cos come Judgement Day, all of that won't matter. How many people did you help. How many people did you talk to. How many people did you try to encourage. How many people did you bring to God. That's what's gon' matter.”
“No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.”
“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe itâ€™s called 'fan fiction'.”
“I think I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am. Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org
“At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.”

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