"As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience."

-- Rafal Blechacz

#Understanding Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“Money is just a way of keeping score.”

Source : "Why the politics of envy are keenest among the very rich" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2013.
“It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.”
“I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.”
“Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.”
“You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some times just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine.”
“What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!”
“Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.”
“everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.”

Source : Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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