"There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Expression Quotes #Self Quotes #Giving Quotes

“In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.”

Source : "Model Behavior / Vendela makes room in her life for charity, upcoming marriage and a 'Batman' movie" by Trish Donnally, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 1996.
“That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.”
“Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?”
“I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.”
“Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.”
“Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.”
“Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.”
“The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.”

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