"I think part of the bad thing is that skill is emphasized so much that a lot of people, by the time they get to Juilliard, well I think they kind of forget why they got into music in the first place and if they're performers - this is a simplification, but a lot of them are trying to win a competition and play more accurately, or better, or more beautifully, whatever can be measured, than somebody else."

-- Tod Machover

#Thinking Quotes #Winning Quotes #Play Quotes

“When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'”
“Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.”

Source : Charles A. Murray (2006). “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State”, Aei Press
“I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.”
“There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.”
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
“I see (humor) in the smallest things.”

Source : Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com
“Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...”

Source : "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.
“A big girl once came up to me after a show and said "I think you're fatist." I said "No, no. I think you're fattest."”

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