"A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing."

-- Dave Genn

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“I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.”
“A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.”
“When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.”
“Eventually we will learn that the loss of indivisible love is another of our necessary losses, that loving extends beyond the mother-child pair, that most of the love we receive in this world is love we will have to share--and that sharing begins at home, with our sibling rivals.”
“When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.”
“I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."”
“I either run or try to play basketball every day.”

Source : "A Scrubbed Toe in the Race". Interview with Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2010.
“When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.39, A&C Black

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