"If the reader were so rash as to purchase any of Bela Bartok's compositions, he would find that they each and all consist of unmeaning bunches of notes, apparently representing the composer promenading the keyboard in his boots. Some can be played better with the elbows, others with the flat of the hand. None require fingers to perform or ears to listen too."

-- Frederick Corder

#Hands Quotes #Musical Quotes #Boots Quotes

“Love is letting go of fear.”
“I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.”
“I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.”
“I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.”
“I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.”
“I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.”
“Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.”
“I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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