"When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice."

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Source : FaceBook post by Mstislav Rostropovich from Dec 20, 2016

Mstislav Rostropovich

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“Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.”
“The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.”
“I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.”
“In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.”

Source : "If Big Brother came back, he'd be a public-private partnership". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.
“The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.”
“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”

Source : Reinhard A. Steiner, Egon Schiele (1993). “Egon Schiele 1890-1918: The Midnight Soul of the Artist”, Taschen
“Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.”
“Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.”

Source : "Republic of Ireland striker Robbie Keane rejuvenated by LA Galaxy move" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2011.

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