"The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing."

“If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong,”

“Style applies to a lifestyle. It's not about being told this is trendy, you must do it. Now people have more access than ever before.”

“My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.”

Source : Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.444, Cambridge University Press

“City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down”

“I had a band called the Sound Of Love and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape and that was that.”

“With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.”

“I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.”

Source : Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.31, Macmillan

“We wear the mask that grins and lies.”