"There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story."

-- Jamie Tworkowski

#Inspiration Quotes #Magic Quotes #Stories Quotes

“And if you look around, if you listen to some music nowdays, I'm not so optimistic...I have the feeling that some of the young people I've met they think already, before they start playing, they think already about the product: how can we sell it....maybe my view is really very old fashioned nowadays, but I think art at any times needs time for development and this fast food bullshit is not working... younger guys: take your time, music is really a thing of long terms, actually it's a lifelong thing to learn and to develop your own stuff.”
“I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.”
“Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who donâ€™t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if youâ€™re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is whatâ€™s important.”
“He looked at her, and the clarity of his dark eyes struck her heart with a sensation of a wound touched.”
“It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.”
“Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.”
“Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.”
“My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back ...”

Source : Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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