"My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal."

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Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

Helene Grimaud

#Stronger Quotes #Rehearsal Quotes #Belief Quotes

“While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.”
“What a life, without wine!”
“Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.”
“People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.”

Source : Paul Smith (2012). “Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives that Captivate, Convince, and Inspire”, p.29, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
“I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.”
“Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.”
“Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.”
“It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.”

Source : David Hume, Stuart D. Warner, Donald W. Livingston (1994). “Hume: Political Writings”, p.253, Hackett Publishing

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