"Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way."

-- Evelyn Glennie

#Challenges Quotes #Way Quotes #Lyrical Quotes

“Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional arrangements that contributes to the probability of its government engaging in some of the more extreme varieties of outrage. Though it is a long step between being disarmed and being murdered-one does not usually lead to the other-but it is nevertheless an arresting reality that not one of the principal genocides of the twentieth century, and there have been dozens, has been inflicted on a population that was armed.”

Source : "Armed against genocide" by Glenn Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2006.
“At some point, there would simply be no point.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2009). “Still Alice”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
“Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.”
“the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.”
“With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.”
“I never think of my age, never - I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I'm just me.”
“There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.”

Source : The Washington Post, (p. A3), July 2, 1970.

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