"I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music - and you know, and I do play a lot of that, obviously - engaging with new composers, engaging with young composers, is really exciting because it makes me look at people of the past in a very different way that they are also living, that there was a lot of subjectivity in the decisions that they were making."

-- Mahan Esfahani

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.”

Source : "Cumming out on top". Interview with Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2003.
“All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.”
“People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.”
“If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.”
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
“I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #â€Ž intuition guide my way.”

Source : "Lyall Watson" by Dennis Barker, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.
“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.”

Source : "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.
“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.”

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