"As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game."

-- Yo-Yo Ma

#Children Quotes #Games Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)”
“Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.”
“Something good comes out of every crisis.”
“The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.”
“There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.”
“Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2012). “The Job: An American Novel”, p.266, The Floating Press
“Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things that we carry with us, they're the things that make us what we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away, I need my pain!”
“While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.”

You may also like:

Chris Botti
Trumpeter
Chris Thile
Mandolinist
Edgar Meyer
Bassist
Emanuel Ax
Classical pianist
Itzhak Perlman
Violinist
Jacqueline du Pre
Cellist
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Stuart Duncan
Session musician