"So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms."

-- Ruggiero Ricci

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“I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.”
“In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color”
“My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.”

Source : "Gail Porter: My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.
“The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.”
“Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal”
“Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.”

Source : Saint Joan (of Arc), Thomas de Courcelles, Guillaume Manchon, Pierre Cauchon, Catholic Church. Diocese of Beauvais (France) (1931). “The trial of Jeanne d'Arc”
“Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money”

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