"I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles."

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Source : Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

Gavin Bryars

#Hard Times Quotes #Ensemble Quotes

“Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.”
“Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”
“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”
“I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.”
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
“Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.”
“You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.”
“Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one.”

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